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鼓励加密货币中的隐私

Incentivising Privacy in Cryptocurrencies

Sarah Azouvi, Haaroon Yousaf, Alexander Hicks

摘要:

隐私是中本聪比特币白皮书中提到的关键点之一,也是比特币早期的卖点之一。然而,事后看来,对比特币用户进行去匿名化比预期的更可行。从那时起,以隐私为重点的加密货币,如Zcash和Monero已经浮出水面。正如最近的研究所表明的那样,这两个例子都不能说是完全成功的。激励措施是加密货币安全性不可或缺的一部分,因此调查它们是否也可以与隐私目标保持一致是很有趣的。缺乏隐私通常是由于用户数量少,导致匿名集低。用户是否可以被激励使用他们使用的系统的隐私保护实现?Zcash不仅比比特币(它的分叉)使用得少得多,而且大多数Zcash交易都是简单的透明交易,而不是(至少是打算)保护隐私的屏蔽交易。本文和海报简要讨论了如何将激励措施纳入加密货币等系统中,以实现隐私目标。我们以Zcash为例,但讨论的想法可以适用于其他以隐私为中心的加密货币。这项工作在OPERANDI 2018上作为海报展示,海报可以在这个简短的文档中找到。

英文摘要:

Privacy was one of the key points mentioned in Nakamoto's Bitcoin whitepaper, and one of the selling points of Bitcoin in its early stages. In hindsight, however, de-anonymising Bitcoin users turned out to be more feasible than expected. Since then, privacy focused cryptocurrencies such as Zcash and Monero have surfaced. Both of these examples cannot be described as fully successful in their aims, as recent research has shown. Incentives are integral to the security of cryptocurrencies, so it is interesting to investigate whether they could also be aligned with privacy goals. A lack of privacy often results from low user counts, resulting in low anonymity sets. Could users be incentivised to use the privacy preserving implementations of the systems they use? Not only is Zcash much less used than Bitcoin (which it forked from), but most Zcash transactions are simply transparent transactions, rather than the (at least intended to be) privacy-preserving shielded transactions. This paper and poster briefly discusses how incentives could be incorporated into systems like cryptocurrencies with the aim of achieving privacy goals. We take Zcash as example, but the ideas discussed could apply to other privacy-focused cryptocurrencies. This work was presented as a poster at OPERANDI 2018, the poster can be found within this short document.

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