Visible to the public Security Issues Seclusion in Bitcoin System

TitleSecurity Issues Seclusion in Bitcoin System
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2020
AuthorsSoni, D. K., Sharma, H., Bhushan, B., Sharma, N., Kaushik, I.
Conference Name2020 IEEE 9th International Conference on Communication Systems and Network Technologies (CSNT)
Date PublishedApril 2020
PublisherIEEE
ISBN Number978-1-7281-4976-9
Keywordsadversarial attacks, Anonymity and Privacy, assets, bitcoin, Bitcoin privacy, Bitcoin system, blockchain, crypto-currency, cryptocurrencies, cryptocurrency, data privacy, digital currency, exchange, exchange trading commodity, Human Behavior, market, Peer-to-peer computing, peer-to-peer payment network, pseudonames, pubcrawl, Scalability, security, security issues, trading, transaction management, transaction processing, transaction verification, user identity, User profile
Abstract

In the dawn of crypto-currencies the most talked currency is Bitcoin. Bitcoin is widely flourished digital currency and an exchange trading commodity implementing peer-to-peer payment network. No central athourity exists in Bitcoin. The users in network or pool of bitcoin need not to use real names, rather they use pseudo names for managing and verifying transactions. Due to the use of pseudo names bitcoin is apprehended to provide anonymity. However, the most transparent payment network is what bitcoin is. Here all the transactions are publicly open. To furnish wholeness and put a stop to double-spending, Blockchain is used, which actually works as a ledger for management of Bitcoins. Blockchain can be misused to monitor flow of bitcoins among multiple transactions. When data from external sources is amalgamated with insinuation acquired from the Blockchain, it may result to reveal user's identity and profile. In this way the activity of user may be traced to an extent to fraud that user. Along with the popularity of Bitcoins the number of adversarial attacks has also gain pace. All these activities are meant to exploit anonymity and privacy in Bitcoin. These acivities result in loss of bitcoins and unlawful profit to attackers. Here in this paper we tried to present analysis of major attacks such as malicious attack, greater than 52% attacks and block withholding attack. Also this paper aims to present analysis and improvements in Bitcoin's anonymity and privacy.

URLhttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9115744
DOI10.1109/CSNT48778.2020.9115744
Citation Keysoni_security_2020