@inproceedings{ed549aacd20f4539a4d459711d2e4b5e,
title = "Mixcoin: Anonymity for bitcoin with accountable mixes",
abstract = "We propose Mixcoin, a protocol to facilitate anonymous payments in Bitcoin and similar cryptocurrencies. We build on the emergent phenomenon of currency mixes, adding an accountability mechanism to expose theft. We demonstrate that incentives of mixes and clients can be aligned to ensure that rational mixes will not steal. Our scheme is efficient and fully compatible with Bitcoin. Against a passive attacker, our scheme provides an anonymity set of all other users mixing coins contemporaneously. This is an interesting new property with no clear analog in better-studied communication mixes. Against active attackers our scheme offers similar anonymity to traditional communication mixes.",
author = "Joseph Bonneau and Arvind Narayanan and Andrew Miller and Jeremy Clark and Kroll, {Joshua A.} and Felten, {Edward W.}",
note = "Funding Information: We thank our anonymous referees and all who read drafts and contributed valuable suggestions to this work, especially Aaron Johnson, Ian Miers, Roger Dingledine, George Danezis, Peter Eckersley, Peter Todd and Eran Tromer. Joshua Kroll was supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program under grant number DGE-1148900. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} International Financial Cryptography Association 2014.; 18th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, FC 2014 ; Conference date: 03-03-2014 Through 07-03-2014",
year = "2014",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-662-45472-5_31",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "486--504",
editor = "Reihaneh Safavi-Naini and Nicolas Christin",
booktitle = "Financial Cryptography and Data Security - 18th International Conference, FC 2014, Revised Selected Papers",
}