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Title: clustering addresses, what's the most effective way? Post by: s.matthew.english on November 02, 2016, 06:04:05 PM The Fistful of Bitcoins paper [1] by Meiklejohn et al has some nice heuristics. i.e.
HEURISTIC 1. If two (or more) addresses are inputs to the same transaction, they are controlled by the same user; i.e., for any transaction t, all pk ∈ inputs(t) are controlled by the same user. HEURISTIC 2. The one-time change address is controlled by the same user as the input addresses; i.e., for any transaction t, the controller of inputs(t) also controls the one-time change address pk ∈ outputs(t) (if such an address exists). Are there any others that are particularly effective? Is it possible to bootstrap my clustering, for instance, maybe if some people have already associated a certain cluster with Kraken or Satoshi Dice, is this information available? [1] https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~smeiklejohn/files/imc13.pdf Title: Re: clustering addresses, what's the most effective way? Post by: achow101 on November 02, 2016, 06:08:22 PM The Fistful of Bitcoins paper [1] by Meiklejohn et al has some nice heuristics. i.e. AFAIK, no, only those two methods can actually work. But even so, they are nowhere near definitive. Both will break if a mixer is used. Heuristic 1 can be broken if CoinJoin transactions are used. Heuristic 2 itself is a little shaky as it is hard to tell which output is change and which is the real payment.HEURISTIC 1. If two (or more) addresses are inputs to the same transaction, they are controlled by the same user; i.e., for any transaction t, all pk ∈ inputs(t) are controlled by the same user. HEURISTIC 2. The one-time change address is controlled by the same user as the input addresses; i.e., for any transaction t, the controller of inputs(t) also controls the one-time change address pk ∈ outputs(t) (if such an address exists). Are there any others that are particularly effective? Is it possible to bootstrap my clustering, for instance, maybe if some people have already associated a certain cluster with Kraken or Satoshi Dice, is this information available? Checkout walletexplorer.com. |