Bitcoin, Cryptocurrencies, and Blockchains — Arvind Narayanan

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Highlights: Cryptocurrency textbook and lectures  /  Systematization-of-knowledge paper  /  BlockSci software and paper  /  Intellectual history of Bitcoin

Publications

Conference
Resurrecting Address Clustering in Bitcoin
Malte Möser, Arvind Narayanan.
Financial Cryptography and Data Security, 2022.
Conference
BlockSci: Design and applications of a blockchain analysis platform
Harry Kalodner, Malte Möser, Kevin Lee, Steven Goldfeder, Martin Plattner, Alishah Chator, Arvind Narayanan.
Usenix Security Symposium, 2020.
Blog post.
Draft
Effective Cryptocurrency Regulation Through Blacklisting
Malte Moeser, Arvind Narayanan.
Manuscript, 2019.
Conference
Formal Barriers to Longest-Chain Proof-of-Stake Protocols
Jonah Brown-Cohen, Arvind Narayanan, Christos-Alexandros Psomas, S. Matthew Weinberg.
ACM Conference on Economics and Computation 2019.
Journal
When the cookie meets the blockchain: Privacy risks of web payments via cryptocurrencies
Steven Goldfeder, Harry Kalodner, Dillon Reisman, Arvind Narayanan.
Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETs) 2018.
Blog post.
Magazine
Bitcoin's Academic Pedigree
Arvind Narayanan, Jeremy Clark.
ACM Queue, 2017. (Also appeared in CACM, 2017.)
Workshop
Obfuscation in Bitcoin: Techniques and Politics
Arvind Narayanan, Malte Möser.
International Workshop on Obfuscation: Science, Technology, and Theory, 2017.
Magazine
Research for Practice: Cryptocurrencies, Blockchains, and Smart Contracts
Arvind Narayanan, Andrew Miller.
ACM Queue, 2017.
Conference
An empirical study of Namecoin and lessons for decentralized namespace design
Harry Kalodner, Miles Carlsten, Paul Ellenbogen, Joseph Bonneau, Arvind Narayanan.
WEIS 2015.
Blog post.
Draft
Securing Bitcoin wallets via a new DSA/ECDSA threshold signature scheme
Steven Goldfeder, Rosario Gennario, Harry Kalodner, Joseph Bonneau, Edward W. Felten, Joshua A. Kroll, Arvind Narayanan.
Manuscript, 2015.
Blog post.
Conference
Research Perspectives and Challenges for Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies
Joseph Bonneau, Andrew Miller, Jeremy Clark, Arvind Narayanan, Joshua A. Kroll, Edward W. Felten.
IEEE Security and Privacy (Oakland) 2015.
ePrint version with minor differences.
Conference
On Decentralizing Prediction Markets and Order Books
Jeremy Clark, Joseph Bonneau, Edward W. Felten, Joshua A. Kroll, Andrew Miller, Arvind Narayanan
WEIS 2014.
Blog post.
Conference
Mixcoin: Anonymity for Bitcoin with accountable mixes
Joseph Bonneau, Arvind Narayanan, Andrew Miller, Jeremy Clark, Joshua A. Kroll, Edward W. Felten.
Financial Cryptography 2014.
Related blog post: The importance of anonymous cryptocurrencies

Press

Blockchain Researchers Link Realism to Blockchain's Promise
Princeton University, Dec 26, 2018
Blockchain After a Stressful Election, Experts Warn Blockchain Is Not the Answer
NBC News, Nov 09, 2018
Blockchain US Senators Raise Crypto Mining Concerns, Propose Government Blockchains
Coindesk, Aug 21, 2018
Bitcoin How WIRED Lost $100,000 in Bitcoin
Wired, May 28, 2018
Blockchain Startups Want to Use the Blockchain to Take Our Data Out of Uber's Hands
Motherboard, Apr 05, 2018
Blockchain ‘Blockchain’ Is Meaningless
The Verge, Mar 07, 2018
Bitcoin How the US Government Handles Its Massive Stash of Bitcoins
Investopedia, Feb 25, 2018
Blockchain Banks Claim They're Building Blockchains. They're Not
Investopedia, Feb 23, 2018
Cryptocurrency Cryptocurrencies Come to Campus
New York Times, Feb 08, 2018
Bitcoin, Anonymity, Web privacy Bitcoin Transactions Aren’t as Anonymous as Everyone Hoped
MIT Technology Review, Aug 23, 2017
Bitcoin Miller: On Bitcoin and a Public Backlash ′to Reclaim Our Privacy and Security′
Deutsche Welle, Sep 05, 2016
Bitcoin At W3C Event, Industry Seeks to Weave Blockchains Into New Web
Coindesk, Jul 05, 2016
Bitcoin The Future of Cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin and Beyond
Nature News, Sep 30, 2015
Bitcoin Constructive Debate Shines as Scaling Bitcoin Unites Developers
Coindesk, Sep 13, 2015
Bitcoin Princeton University and Coursera Launch Free Online Course on Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies
Bitcoin Magazine, Aug 27, 2015
Bitcoin Heated Debate Over Software Change Shows Bitcoin’s Governance Challenge
WSJ 'MoneyBeat' blog, May 20, 2015
Bitcoin Leaderless Bitcoin Struggles to Make Its Most Crucial Decision
MIT Technology Review, May 19, 2015
Bitcoin Threshold Signatures: The New Standard for Wallet Security?
Bitcoin Magazine, Mar 09, 2015
Bitcoin Data Security Is Becoming the Sparkle in Bitcoin
New York Times, Mar 01, 2015
Bitcoin Princeton Researcher Receives $500k National Science Foundation Cryptocurrency Grant
Let's Talk Bitcoin blog, Jul 22, 2014
Bitcoin Can Bitcoin Help Predict the Future?
Coindesk, May 14, 2014
Bitcoin Princeton Researchers Developing Bitcoin-Based Prediction Market
Coindesk, Jan 06, 2014
Bitcoin U. Researchers Develop Bitcoin Prediction Market
The Daily Princetonian, Jan 05, 2014