Detecting Bitcoin Nodes by the Cyberspace Search Engines

Ruiguang Li*, Jiawei Zhu, Jiaqi Gao, Fudong Wu, Dawei Xu, Liehuang Zhu

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Abstract

Nowadays, the cyberspace search engines have showed great power to find entities and services in the network, which provide new ideas and methods to detect the Bitcoin nodes. This paper introduces the Bitcoin’s P2P network and nodes including the reachable nodes and the unreachable nodes. Then, the results of detecting reachable nodes by the cyberspace search engines are showed. Next, the author proposes a new approach to find and verify the unreachable nodes by the cyberspace search engines. Finally, this paper illustrates the de-anonymization of some Bitcoin nodes by the cyberspace search engines, which map some node’s IP addresses to real Bitcoin entities, such as Zeblockchain (a browser website), Microwallet (a wallet website) and Laurentia Pool (a non-profit pool website).

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCyber Security - 19th China Annual Conference, CNCERT 2022, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsWei Lu, Hanbing Yan, Chao Li, Yuqing Zhang, Weiping Wen
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages129-138
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9789811982842
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Event19th China Cyber Security Annual Conference, CNCERT 2022 - Beijing, China
Duration: 16 Aug 202217 Aug 2022

Publication series

NameCommunications in Computer and Information Science
Volume1699 CCIS
ISSN (Print)1865-0929
ISSN (Electronic)1865-0937

Conference

Conference19th China Cyber Security Annual Conference, CNCERT 2022
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period16/08/2217/08/22

Keywords

  • Bitcoin nodes
  • Cyberspace search engines
  • De-anonymization
  • Reachable nodes
  • Unreachable nodes

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