100 Recent Articles Privacy for Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Technology, Curated Publications List

Privacy is an important concept in society as it defines rights for individual information to be withheld or shared among a larger set of people, organizations, or algorithms. For blockchain, there are two main privacy approaches: zkSnarks and RingCT. There are also other considerations, such as IP masking and roles of confidentiality in transactions for supply chains, medical records, and other industries. While the initial Bitcoin ledger has all transactions public there are still approaches to obfuscate records through mixing and additional layers of information.

However, it is important to note privacy is not a gradient: something is either fully private or it is not. With the ease of developing algorithms and heuristics to identify individuals among a larger data-set, privacy implementation will become a priority over time and perhaps even a requirement. While there are only a few dozen projects featuring privacy, a fully fungible and consistently enforced solution has yet to be released and widely used. Within the next two years better solutions are likely to gain wider adoption as more examples for benefits of privacy as well as ease of use dramatically improve.

These are the top 100 cited articles from 2017 to 2018 mentioning blockchain, privacy, and RingCT or zkSNARKS.

1. "Security and privacy in decentralized energy trading through multi-signatures, blockchain and anonymous messaging streams". NZ Aitzhan, D Svetinovic. 2018. ieeexplore.ieee.org IEEE Transactions on Dependable .... 94 cites.
2. "An overview of blockchain technology: Architecture, consensus, and future trends". Z Zheng, S Xie, H Dai, X Chen.... 2017. ieeexplore.ieee.org Big Data (BigData .... 88 cites.
3. "Mastering Bitcoin: Programming the open blockchain". AM Antonopoulos. 2017. *books.google.com *. 80 cites.
4. "A first look at the usability of bitcoin key management". S Eskandari, J Clark, D Barrera, E Stobert. 2018. arxiv.org arXiv preprint arXiv .... 53 cites.
5. "Bitcoin: a moeda na era digital". F Ulrich. 2017. *books.google.com *. 52 cites.
6. "Enabling localized peer-to-peer electricity trading among plug-in hybrid electric vehicles using consortium blockchains". J Kang, R Yu, X Huang, S Maharjan.... 2017. ieeexplore.ieee.org IEEE Transactions .... 50 cites.
7. "An ID-based linearly homomorphic signature scheme and its application in blockchain". Q Lin, H Yan, Z Huang, W Chen, J Shen, Y Tang. 2018. ieeexplore.ieee.org IEEE Access. 46 cites.
8. "A survey on security and privacy issues of bitcoin". M Conti, S Kumar, C Lal, S Ruj. 2018. ieeexplore.ieee.org IEEE Communications Surveys .... 44 cites.
9. "A survey on the security of blockchain systems". X Li, P Jiang, T Chen, X Luo, Q Wen. 2017. Elsevier Future Generation Computer Systems. 41 cites.
10. "Hijacking bitcoin: Routing attacks on cryptocurrencies". M Apostolaki, A Zohar.... 2017. ieeexplore.ieee.org ... Privacy (SP), 2017 IEEE .... 40 cites.
11. "The blockchain folk theorem". B Biais, C Bisiere, M Bouvard, C Casamatta. 2018. *papers.ssrn.com *. 36 cites.
12. "MeDShare: Trust-less medical data sharing among cloud service providers via blockchain". Q Xia, EB Sifah, KO Asamoah, J Gao, X Du.... 2017. ieeexplore.ieee.org IEEE .... 34 cites.
13. "Untangling blockchain: A data processing view of blockchain systems". TTA Dinh, R Liu, M Zhang, G Chen.... 2018. ieeexplore.ieee.org IEEE Transactions on .... 33 cites.
14. "Bolt: Anonymous payment channels for decentralized currencies". M Green, I Miers. 2017. dl.acm.org Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGSAC Conference on .... 32 cites.
15. "Blockchains for decentralized optimization of energy resources in microgrid networks". E Münsing, J Mather, S Moura. 2017. ieeexplore.ieee.org Control Technology and .... 30 cites.
16. "Consensus in the age of blockchains". S Bano, A Sonnino, M Al-Bassam, S Azouvi.... 2017. arxiv.org arXiv preprint arXiv .... 28 cites.
17. "Scalable bias-resistant distributed randomness". E Syta, P Jovanovic, EK Kogias, N Gailly.... 2017. ieeexplore.ieee.org Security and Privacy .... 27 cites.
18. "Sealed-glass proofs: Using transparent enclaves to prove and sell knowledge". F Tramer, F Zhang, H Lin, JP Hubaux.... 2017. ieeexplore.ieee.org ... Security and Privacy .... 26 cites.
19. "Catena: Efficient non-equivocation via Bitcoin". A Tomescu, S Devadas. 2017. computer.org ... IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy .... 25 cites.
20. "The future of FinTech: Integrating finance and technology in financial services". B Nicoletti. 2017. *books.google.com *. 23 cites.
21. "The future of free speech, trolls, anonymity and fake news online". H Rainie, JQ Anderson, J Albright. 2017. *elon.edu *. 22 cites.
22. "Scalable, transparent, and post-quantum secure computational integrity". E Ben-Sasson, I Bentov, Y Horesh.... 2018. monoico.com Cryptol. ePrint Arch .... 21 cites.
23. "An empirical analysis of linkability in the Monero blockchain". A Miller, M Möser, K Lee, A Narayanan. 2017. maltemoeser.de arXiv preprint. 20 cites.
24. "P2P Mixing and Unlinkable Bitcoin Transactions.". T Ruffing, P Moreno-Sanchez, A Kate. 2017. wp.internetsociety.org NDSS. 20 cites.
25. "A scalable verification solution for blockchains". J Teutsch, C Reitwießner. 2017. people.cs.uchicago.edu url: https://people. cs. uchicago .... 20 cites.
26. "Malleability of the blockchain's entropy". C Pierrot, B Wesolowski. 2018. Springer Cryptography and Communications. 20 cites.
27. "Sex, drugs, and bitcoin: How much illegal activity is financed through cryptocurrencies?". S Foley, J Karlsen, TJ Putniņš. 2018. *papers.ssrn.com *. 20 cites.
28. "Iron: functional encryption using Intel SGX". B Fisch, D Vinayagamurthy, D Boneh.... 2017. dl.acm.org Proceedings of the 2017 .... 20 cites.
29. "Redactable blockchain--or--rewriting history in bitcoin and friends". G Ateniese, B Magri, D Venturi.... 2017. ieeexplore.ieee.org Security and Privacy .... 19 cites.
30. "Cryptocurrency: A new investment opportunity?". K Chuen, LEE David, L Guo, Y Wang. 2017. *papers.ssrn.com *. 19 cites.
31. "A traceability analysis of Monero's blockchain". A Kumar, C Fischer, S Tople, P Saxena. 2017. Springer European Symposium on .... 18 cites.
32. "Decentralization in bitcoin and ethereum networks". AE Gencer, S Basu, I Eyal, R van Renesse.... 2018. arxiv.org arXiv preprint arXiv .... 18 cites.
33. "Beyond bitcoin: an early overview on smart contracts". P Cuccuru. 2017. academic.oup.com International Journal of Law and Information .... 18 cites.
34. "OmniLedger: A Secure, Scale-Out, Decentralized Ledger.". E Kokoris-Kogias, P Jovanovic, L Gasser.... 2017. allquantor.at IACR Cryptology .... 18 cites.
35. "The evolution of the bitcoin economy: extracting and analyzing the network of payment relationships". P Tasca, A Hayes, S Liu. 2018. emeraldinsight.com The Journal of Risk Finance. 18 cites.
36. "Concurrency and privacy with payment-channel networks". G Malavolta, P Moreno-Sanchez, A Kate.... 2017. dl.acm.org Proceedings of the .... 17 cites.
37. "CHAINIAC: Proactive software-update transparency via collectively signed skipchains and verified builds". K Nikitin, E Kokoris-Kogias, P Jovanovic.... 2017. usenix.org 26th USENIX Security .... 17 cites.
38. "Secure and anonymous decentralized Bitcoin mixing". JH Ziegeldorf, R Matzutt, M Henze, F Grossmann.... 2018. Elsevier Future Generation .... 17 cites.
39. "A multi-party protocol for constructing the public parameters of the Pinocchio zk-SNARK". S Bowe, A Gabizon, MD Green. 2017. *z.cash *. 17 cites.
40. "RingCT 2.0: a compact accumulator-based (linkable ring signature) protocol for blockchain cryptocurrency monero". SF Sun, MH Au, JK Liu, TH Yuen. 2017. Springer European Symposium on Research in .... 16 cites.
41. "IKP: Turning a PKI around with decentralized automated incentives". S Matsumoto, RM Reischuk. 2017. ieeexplore.ieee.org ... and Privacy (SP), 2017 IEEE .... 16 cites.
42. "Challenging the techno-politics of anonymity: the case of cryptomarket users". A Bancroft, P Scott Reid. 2017. Taylor & Francis Information, Communication & Society. 16 cites.
43. "Dandelion: Redesigning the bitcoin network for anonymity". S Bojja Venkatakrishnan, G Fanti.... 2017. dl.acm.org Proceedings of the ACM .... 16 cites.
44. "When the cookie meets the blockchain: Privacy risks of web payments via cryptocurrencies". S Goldfeder, H Kalodner, D Reisman.... 2018. degruyter.com Proceedings on Privacy .... 15 cites.
45. "A Quantitative Analysis of the Impact of Arbitrary Blockchain Content on Bitcoin". R Matzutt, J Hiller, M Henze, JH Ziegeldorf.... 2018. martinhenze.de Proceedings of the .... 15 cites.
46. "Zero-knowledge contingent payments revisited: Attacks and payments for services". M Campanelli, R Gennaro, S Goldfeder.... 2017. dl.acm.org Proceedings of the 2017 .... 15 cites.
47. "Decentralized Computing Using Blockchain Technologies and Smart Contracts: Emerging Research and Opportunities: Emerging Research and ...". S Asharaf, S Adarsh. 2017. *books.google.com *. 14 cites.
48. "Adding concurrency to smart contracts". T Dickerson, P Gazzillo, M Herlihy.... 2017. dl.acm.org Proceedings of the ACM .... 13 cites.
49. "A reference model for internet of things middleware". MAA da Cruz, JJPC Rodrigues.... 2018. ieeexplore.ieee.org IEEE Internet of .... 13 cites.
50. "Providing privacy, safety, and security in iot-based transactive energy systems using distributed ledgers". A Laszka, A Dubey, M Walker, D Schmidt. 2017. dl.acm.org Proceedings of the Seventh .... 12 cites.
51. "Privacy in the Smart City---Applications, Technologies, Challenges, and Solutions". D Eckhoff, I Wagner. 2017. ieeexplore.ieee.org IEEE Communications Surveys & .... 12 cites.
52. "Tracking digital footprints: anonymity within the bitcoin system". P Reynolds, ASM Irwin. 2017. emeraldinsight.com Journal of Money Laundering Control. 12 cites.
53. "Medical systems, devices and methods". FP Veltz. 2017. Google Patents US Patent App. 15/446,015. 12 cites.
54. "A conceptual secure Blockchain-based electronic voting system". AB Ayed. 2017. aircconline.com International Journal of Network Security & Its .... 11 cites.
55. "Blockchain for good?". B Kewell, R Adams, G Parry. 2017. Wiley Online Library Strategic Change. 11 cites.
56. "Solidus: Confidential distributed ledger transactions via PVORM". E Cecchetti, F Zhang, Y Ji, A Kosba, A Juels.... 2017. dl.acm.org Proceedings of the 2017 .... 11 cites.
57. "FinTech platforms and strategy". V Dhar, RM Stein. 2017. dl.acm.org Communications of the ACM. 11 cites.
58. "Bulletproofs: Efficient range proofs for confidential transactions". B Bünz, J Bootle, D Boneh, A Poelstra, P Wuille.... 2017. *cryptopapers.info *. 11 cites.
59. "OnionDNS: A seizure-resistant top-level domain". N Scaife, H Carter, L Lidsky, RL Jones.... 2018. Springer International Journal of .... 11 cites.
60. "Bitcoins und andere dezentrale Transaktionssysteme". E Sixt. 2017. Springer Blockchains als Basis einer Kryptoökonomie .... 11 cites.
61. "Softwarization of internet of things infrastructure for secure and smart healthcare". MA Salahuddin, A Al-Fuqaha, M Guizani.... 2018. arxiv.org arXiv preprint arXiv .... 10 cites.
62. "Secure attribute-based signature scheme with multiple authorities for Blockchain in electronic health records systems". R Guo, H Shi, Q Zhao, D Zheng. 2018. ieeexplore.ieee.org IEEE Access. 10 cites.
63. "Block-by-block: leveraging the power of blockchain technology to build trust and promote cyber peace". SJ Shackelford, S Myers. 2017. HeinOnline Yale JL & Tech.. 10 cites.
64. "Silicon to syringe: Cryptomarkets and disruptive innovation in opioid supply chains". M Gilbert, N Dasgupta. 2017. Elsevier International Journal of Drug Policy. 10 cites.
65. "Tomorrow's Inheritance: The Frontiers of Estate Planning Formalism". D Horton. 2017. HeinOnline BCL Rev.. 10 cites.
66. "A Review on the Use of Blockchain for the Internet of Things". TM Fernández-Caramés, P Fraga-Lamas. 2018. ieeexplore.ieee.org IEEE Access. 9 cites.
67. "Use of Bitcoin in Darknet Markets: Examining Facilitative Factors on Bitcoin-Related Crimes". S Kethineni, Y Cao, C Dodge. 2018. Springer American Journal of Criminal Justice. 9 cites.
68. "Bulletproofs: Short proofs for confidential transactions and more". B Bünz, J Bootle, D Boneh, A Poelstra.... 2018. computer.org ... : Short Proofs for .... 9 cites.
69. "A Blockchain Connected Gateway for BLE-Based Devices in the Internet of Things". SC Cha, JF Chen, C Su, KH Yeh. 2018. ieeexplore.ieee.org IEEE Access. 8 cites.
70. "On or off the blockchain? Insights on off-chaining computation and data". J Eberhardt, S Tai. 2017. Springer European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud .... 8 cites.
71. "SCRAPE: Scalable randomness attested by public entities". I Cascudo, B David. 2017. Springer ... Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network .... 8 cites.
72. "Decentralized anonymous micropayments". A Chiesa, M Green, J Liu, P Miao, I Miers.... 2017. Springer ... Conference on the .... 8 cites.
73. "Look who's watching: Surveillance, treachery and trust online". FO Hampson, E Jardine. 2017. *McGill-Queen's Press-MQUP *. 8 cites.
74. "Decentralized consensus for edge-centric internet of things: A review, taxonomy, and research issues". K Yeow, A Gani, RW Ahmad, JJPC Rodrigues.... 2018. ieeexplore.ieee.org IEEE Access. 8 cites.
75. "Ontology of Blockchain Technologies. Principles of identification and classification". P Tasca, T Thanabalasingham, CJ Tessone. 2017. arxiv.org arXiv preprint arXiv .... 8 cites.
76. "Data Strategy: How to Profit from a World of Big Data, Analytics and the Internet of Things". B Marr. 2017. *books.google.com *. 8 cites.
77. "Mixing Confidential Transactions: Comprehensive Transaction Privacy for Bitcoin.". T Ruffing, P Moreno-Sanchez. 2017. fc17.ifca.ai IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive. 7 cites.
78. "Cryptography and protocols in hyperledger fabric". E Androulaki, C Cachin, A De Caro, A Kind.... 2017. cachin.com Real-World .... 7 cites.
79. "Bitcoin and the Blockchain as Possible Corporate Governance Tools: Strengths and Weaknesses". FS Piazza. 2017. HeinOnline Bocconi Legal Papers. 7 cites.
80. "Certificate transparency with privacy". S Eskandarian, E Messeri, J Bonneau.... 2017. degruyter.com Proceedings on Privacy .... 7 cites.
81. "Blockchains and data protection in the european union". M Finck. 2017. *papers.ssrn.com *. 7 cites.
82. "Ekiden: A Platform for Confidentiality-Preserving, Trustworthy, and Performant Smart Contract Execution". R Cheng, F Zhang, J Kos, W He, N Hynes.... 2018. arxiv.org arXiv preprint arXiv .... 7 cites.
83. "The price of anonymity: empirical evidence from a market for Bitcoin anonymization". M Möser, R Böhme. 2017. academic.oup.com Journal of Cybersecurity. 7 cites.
84. "Silk Road: The market beyond the reach of the state". R Zajácz. 2017. Taylor & Francis The Information Society. 7 cites.
85. "Fair, Transparent, and Accountable Algorithmic Decision-making Processes". B Lepri, N Oliver, E Letouzé, A Pentland.... 2017. Springer Philosophy & Technology. 7 cites.
86. "The economics of peer-to-peer online sharing". T Teubner, F Hawlitschek. 2018. books.google.com The rise of the sharing economy .... 7 cites.
87. "Design of Distributed Voting Systems". C Meter. 2017. arxiv.org arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.02566. 7 cites.
88. "Conceptualizing Cryptolaw". CL Reyes. 2017. HeinOnline Neb. L. Rev.. 7 cites.
89. "The Driver in the Driverless Car: How Our Technology Choices Will Create the Future". V Wadhwa, A Salkever. 2017. *books.google.com *. 7 cites.
90. "Blockchain Enabled Applications: Understand the Blockchain Ecosystem and How to Make it Work for You". V Dhillon, D Metcalf, M Hooper. 2017. *Springer *. 7 cites.
91. "Умный контейнер, умный порт, BIM, Интернет Вещей и блокчейн в цифровой системе мировой торговли". ЮВ Куприяновская, ВП Куприяновский.... 2018. cyberleninka.ru ... Journal of Open .... 7 cites.
92. "PlaTIBART: a platform for transactive IoT blockchain applications with repeatable testing". MA Walker, A Dubey, A Laszka.... 2017. dl.acm.org Proceedings of the 4th .... 6 cites.
93. "ValueShuffle: Mixing confidential transactions for comprehensive transaction privacy in bitcoin". T Ruffing, P Moreno-Sanchez. 2017. Springer International Conference on Financial .... 6 cites.
94. "Blockchain technology for social impact: opportunities and challenges ahead". W Al-Saqaf, N Seidler. 2017. Taylor & Francis Journal of Cyber Policy. 6 cites.
95. "Overview of Blockchain as the Engine of the 4th Industrial Revolution". K Rabah. 2017. business.mrjournals.org Mara Research Journal of Business & .... 6 cites.
96. "Smarter City: Smart Energy Grid based on Blockchain Technology". A Pieroni, N Scarpato, L Di Nunzio.... 2018. researchgate.net ... Journal on Advanced .... 6 cites.
97. "To Blockchain or Not to Blockchain: That Is the Question". V Gatteschi, F Lamberti, C Demartini.... 2018. ieeexplore.ieee.org IT .... 6 cites.
98. "Tracking ransomware end-to-end". DY Huang, MM Aliapoulios, VG Li.... 2018. ieeexplore.ieee.org ... Security and Privacy .... 6 cites.
99. "Research for practice: cryptocurrencies, blockchains, and smart contracts; hardware for deep learning". P Bailis, A Narayanan, A Miller, S Han. 2017. cs.unibo.it Communications of the ACM. 6 cites.
100. "On the linkability of Zcash transactions". J Quesnelle. 2017. arxiv.org arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.01210. 6 cites.

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