For the significant portion of 2018, as part of my PhD studies in CryptoLUX group at the University of Luxembourg, I’ve been working on network-level privacy attack on Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies with professor Alex Biryukov. This blog post summarizes our findings, which have been published in 2019 (“Deanonymization and linkability of cryptocurrency transactions based on network analysis”). You can watch my presentation at EuroS&P 2019 in Stockholm (press CC for subtitles; slides...