The Open Bitcoin Privacy Project is an open source, global organization whose mission is to improve financial privacy within the Bitcoin ecosystem. Our goals:
- To inventory existing tools and resources useful for Bitcoin users to improve their financial privacy
- To review existing tools and resources intended to improve Bitcoin users’ financial privacy
- To identify critical technologies not yet widely implemented but needed in order to maximize financial privacy in Bitcoin
- To organize crowdfunding efforts for developing better tools for Bitcoin privacy, including wallet software and privacy measurement tools
Kristov is a security and privacy researcher, and the founder of the open Bitcoin Privacy Project.
CoinJoin Sudoku is a tool that measures the privacy afforded by CoinJoin implementations. The first implementation of CoinJoin Sudoku is coinjoinsudoku-php, written by @kristovatlas.
This software will be a framework for blockchain privacy analysis. The framework will be as blockchain-agnostic as possible, allowing developers to easily extend the library to analyze a range of crypto-currencies. This library will be leveraged by future projects that analyze blockchains from a privacy perspective.
This is an up-to-date list of crypto-currency software and their compatibility with the Tails Linux operating system.
This tracker is an up-to-date list of Bitcoin clients and their integration or planned integration of Stealth Address technology.
The goal of the Open Bitcoin Privacy Project is to facilitate the creation of sustainable projects that improve financial privacy in the crypto-currency space. These projects will most often be crowd-funded, and thus must extend the utility of Bitcoin in order to appeal to speculative philanthropists. Crowdfunding can take place through a variety of platforms, including: