Bitcoin SF Devs Seminar: A deep dive into Coinshuffle & Decentralized coinjoin

Join Bryan Vu (Google) as he shares his work on a deep dive into a new coin mixing protocol to improve anonymity in Bitcoin. The protocol is called CoinShuffle.

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The key innovation in CoinShuffle is that it is decentralized and it does not require a mixing server. Among other advantages, this means that no mixing server learns which output addresses and input addresses in a mixing transaction belong together. Since CoinShuffle is based on the idea of CoinJoin, theft of coins is excluded as well. CoinShuffle does not require complex cryptography and performs well in practice, even in scenarios with a large number (about 50) of participants. Read the Bitcointalk thread here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=567625.0