23.08.2017 - 01:21 [ Help Net Security ]

Third party trackers on web shops can identify users behind Bitcoin transactions

Independent researcher Dillon Reisman and Steven Goldfeder, Harry Kalodner and Arvind Narayanan from Princeton University have demonstrated that third-party online tracking provides enough information to identify a transaction on the blockchain, link it to the user’s cookie and, ultimately, to the user’s real identity.