Paper 2022/287 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2022/287 ↗
User-Perceived Privacy in Blockchain
Abstract
This paper studies users’ privacy perceptions of UTXO-based blockchains such as Bitcoin. In particular, it elaborates -- based on interviews and questionnaires -- on a mental model of employing privacy-preserving techniques for blockchain transactions. Furthermore, it evaluates users' awareness of blockchain privacy issues and examines their preferences towards existing privacy-enhancing solutions, i.e., add-on techniques to Bitcoin versus built-in techniques in privacy coins. Using Bitcoin as an example, we shed light on existing discrepancies between users' privacy perceptions and preferences as well as current implementations.
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- Publication info
- Preprint.
- History
- 2022-05-11: last updated
- 2022-03-07: published
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2022/287
- License
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2022/287,
author = {Simin Ghesmati and Walid Fdhila and Edgar Weippl},
title = {User-Perceived Privacy in Blockchain},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2022/287},
year = {2022},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/287}
}