Using Bitcoin as a payment method for Tor hidden services leaks information that can be used to deanonymize their users.<\/p>\n
This is according to Qatar University researchers, who documented their findings in a paper titled When A Small Leak Sinks A Great Ship<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n The deanonymization is mainly due to a lack of retroactive operational security present in Bitcoin\u2019s pseudonymity model.<\/p>\n By inspecting transactions on the blockchain, an adversary can link users, who publicly share their Bitcoin addresses on online social networks, with hidden services, which publicly share their Bitcoin addresses.<\/p>\n \u201cIn a real-world experiment, we were able to link many users of Twitter and the BitcoinTalk forum to various hidden services, including WikiLeaks, Silk Road, and The Pirate Bay,\u201d said the researchers.<\/p>\n \u201cUsing information from their public user profiles, we were able to show concrete case studies where the anonymity of the users is broken.\u201d<\/p>\n Researchers have shown that using Bitcoin as a payment method leaks information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":219068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[187,2818],"class_list":["post-246609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-bitcoin","tag-tor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246609"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246657,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246609\/revisions\/246657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0Bitcoin Cash will overtake Bitcoin \u2013 Vinny Lingham<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"