From d66bad429584a2d12072d7b0d94194d39bdef750 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Nathan Borggren, PhD" Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2023 14:45:32 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md prep for pubrelease --- README.md | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 62fd08b..a8c5be9 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1 +1,17 @@ # MoneroAna + +This repository includes codes and documents related to a +[Monero Fund research project](https://monerofund.org/projects/eae_attack_and_churning) +and is grateful to the donors, engineers, and administrators who made it possible. + +The code relies on an instance of the [Onion Monero Explorer](https://github.com/moneroexamples/onion-monero-blockchain-explorer) and [Monero](https://github.com/monero-project/monero) running on the default ports. + +For the sake of reproducibility and transparency a partial collection of my transactions is included, please redact that usually-private information for publications. + +An initial exploration, see the jupyter notebook in the demos 1001 blocks, shows that the decoys appears to be working quite well. +With only 4 hops, around a 1/3 of the total blockchain is already included in a transaction's Taint Tree. +The intersections of possible co-origins of two given transactions is considerable, 100s of possibilities exist. +This was true for both correlated and uncorrelated transactions. + +Further efforts will expand upon these initial statistics and aide in quantifying the anonymity of the Monero Blockchain. +