Mixcoin: Anonymity for bitcoin with accountable mixes

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 8437, Issue , 2014, Pages 486-504

  Bonneau, Joseph ^a   Narayanan, Arvind ^a   Miller, Andrew ^b   Clark, Jeremy ^c   Kroll, Joshua A ^a   Felten, Edward W ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMIUM COMPOUNDS; CRYPTOGRAPHY;

ANONYMITY SETS; ANONYMOUS PAYMENT; BITCOIN; EMERGENT PHENOMENON; FULLY COMPATIBLE;

ELECTRONIC MONEY;

EID: 84916638798     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-45472-5_31     Document Type: Conference Paper

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