Readings on: anonymous payment / Bitcoin

Optional background reading: Satoshi Nakamoto. “Bitcoin: A peer-to-peer electronic cash system”. http://www.bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf, October 2008.
[Self-published]

Main reading for February 3rd: Ghassan Karame, Elli Androulaki, and Srdjan Capkun. “Double-spending fast payments in Bitcoin”. In ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), pages 906–917, Raleigh, NC, USA, 2012.
[ACM]

Main reading for February 5th: Ian Miers, Christina Garman, Matthew Green, and Aviel D. Rubin. “Zerocoin: Anonymous distributed e-cash from Bitcoin”. In IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (“Oakland”), pages 397–411, San Francisco, CA, USA, May 2013.
[IEEE]