Privacy on Bitcoin

Overview

Curriculum

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Introduction
1.1 - Course overview
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Definitions and key concepts
2.1 - Bitcoin's UTXO model
2.2 - The structure of Bitcoin transactions
2.3 - Bitcoin's privacy model
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Understanding and protecting against chain analysis
3.1 - What is Bitcoin chain analysis?
3.2 - Transaction patterns
3.3 - Internal heuristics
3.4 - External heuristics
3.5 - Putting it into practice with a block explorer
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Mastering best practices to protect your privacy
4.1 - Address reuse
4.2 - Labeling and checking UTXOs
4.3 - KYC and key identification
4.4 - Sales and acquisition methods
4.5 - Consolidation, UTXO management, and CIOH
4.6 - Other best practices
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Understanding coinjoin transactions
5.1 - What's a coinjoin transaction?
5.2 - Zerolink and Chaumian coinjoins
5.3 - Coinjoin implementations
5.4 - How Whirlpool works
5.5 - Anonymity sets
5.6 - Entropy
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Understanding the challenges of other advanced confidentiality techniques
6.1 - Payjoin transactions
6.2 - Payment mini-coinjoin
6.3 - The ricochets
6.4 - Secret transfers of ownership
6.5 - Privacy on the P2P network
6.6 - BIP47 and reusable payment codes
6.7 - Silent Payments
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Final Section
7.1 - Reviews & Ratings
7.2 - Final examination
7.3 - Conclusion