Making Bitcoin Exchanges Transparent

Christian Decker
James Guthrie
Jochen Seidel
Roger Wattenhofer
Bitcoin exchanges are a vital component of the Bitcoin ecosystem. They are a gateway from the classical economy to the cryptocurrency economy, facilitating the exchange between fiat currency and bitcoins. However, exchanges are also single points of failure, operating outside the Bitcoin blockchain, requiring users to entrust them with their funds in order to operate. In this work we present a solution, and a proof-of-concept implementation, that allows exchanges to prove their solvency, without publishing any information of strategic importance.

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Year 2015
Peer Reviewed done
Venue 20th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), Vienna, Austria
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