Bitcoin Address Clustering Method Based on Multiple Heuristic Conditions
Abstract
We analyzed the associations between Bitcoin transactions and addresses to cluster address and further find groups of addresses controlled by the same entity. It revealed the vulnerabilities of Bitcoin anonymity mechanism, which could be used by the law enforcement agencies to track and crack down illegal transactions. However, single heuristic method and incomplete heuristic conditions were difficult to cluster a large number of addresses comprehensively and accurately. Therefore, this paper reviewed a variety of heuristics, and used multiple heuristics comprehensively to cluster addresses to improve the degree of address aggregation and address recall rate, which laid a foundation for further inferring of entity identity.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- April 2021
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.2104.09979
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2104.09979
- Bibcode:
- 2021arXiv210409979X
- Keywords:
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- Computer Science - Cryptography and Security
- E-Print:
- References are incompletely marked, and some references in the article lack citations. The related work part has been revised later. The experimental results have been supplemented later