This is my first post in Press section. So hope everything is ok!Merchants share too much tracking information? Colour us un-surprisedBitcoin transactions might be anonymous, but on the Internet, its users aren't – and according to research out of Princeton University, linking the two together is trivial on the modern, much-tracked Internet.
In fact, linking a user's cookies to their Bitcoin transactions is so straightforward, it's almost surprising it took this long for a paper like this to be published.
The paper sees privacy researcher Dillon Reisman and Princeton's Steven Goldfeder, Harry Kalodner and Arvind Narayanan demonstrate just how straightforward it can be to link cookies to cryptocurrency transactions:
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More read here:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2017/08/20/bitcoins_anonymity_easy_to_penetrate/