Empirical Analysis of the Zcash Blockchain at Zcon0 (2018) by Mary Maller
Channel: Zcash Foundation
Date: 2018-06-26

Mary Maller discusses the different types of transactions in Zcash and their levels of privacy, examining the interactions with the Shielded Pool and the behavior of users. She uses heuristics to analyze blockchain data and identifies transaction patterns, some of which reveal user information.

Live at Zcon0 (2018) Privacy: From A to Zcon
Presented by @zcashfoundation in Montreal, Canada

00:00 Public and Private Zcash Transactions
02:26 Zcash Blockchain Statistics (data from 02.2018)
03:28 Privacy of Miners and Founders (data from 02.2018)
05:05 Interactions with the Shielded Pool
06:26 Identifying Founders
07:27 Identifying Miners
08:29 Identifying other users
09:20 Case Study: The Shadow Brokers
10:33 Recommendations to Users and Developers

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