Wasabi Research Experience

Research meetings organized by Ádám Ficsór (nopara73).

• Recordings: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPwc75tPMdsgTYlu9dJZlosCm0s7WmIpF
• When? Every Monday 16:00 UTC
• Where? https://meet.zksnacks.com/research
• Discussions are sometimes recorded and published.
• There are research meetings every monday. The following logs are created only for recorded meetings or meetings that generated some other type of content.

2021-08-30 18:00 UTC - Privacy Guarantees Of Wasabi Wallet 2.0

• Discussion about WabiSabi and the privacy guarantees of Wasabi Wallet 2.0.
• Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZy_1jmXqG0&list=PLPwc75tPMdsgTYlu9dJZlosCm0s7WmIpF&index=27&ab_channel=WasabiWallet

2021-07-26 18:00 UTC - A Survey on Mixing Techniques (Paper)

• Simin Ghesmati from University of Vienna will join us on a discussion to their 2021, not yet fully published research, titled: A Survey on Mixing Techniques
• Paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/629.pdf
• Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7bK85obzrM&list=PLPwc75tPMdsgTYlu9dJZlosCm0s7WmIpF&index=26&ab_channel=WasabiWallet

2021-06-21 18:00 UTC - The Austrian School & the Political Economics of Bitcoin

• A joint meeting with the Bitcoin Munich meetup group, presentation by Rahim Taghizadegan.
• We'll use the usual Wasabi Research link.
• Meetup event: https://www.meetup.com/Bitcoin-Munich/events/278321861/
• Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga9Rz5IVYUU&list=PLPwc75tPMdsgTYlu9dJZlosCm0s7WmIpF&index=25&ab_channel=WasabiWallet

2021-04-05 18:00 UTC - Privacy of Sovereign Individuals & Austrian Economics

• Discussion about principals of austrian economics and the future of sovereign individuals.
• Special Guest: Giacomo Zucco.
• Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUbQ85iVF2E&list=PLPwc75tPMdsgTYlu9dJZlosCm0s7WmIpF&index=24&ab_channel=WasabiWallet

2021-03-29 18:00 UTC - Integrating WabiSabi

• Discussion about integrating WabiSabi in to other wallets.
• Guests: BenKaufman, MWietersheim, MrKukks & Dan Gould.
• Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTi0z1Sghp8&list=PLPwc75tPMdsgTYlu9dJZlosCm0s7WmIpF&index=23&ab_channel=WasabiWallet

2021-03-22 18:00 UTC - Discrete Log Contract Specification

• Discrete Log Contract Specification/DLCs/dlcspecs.
• Special Guests: Nadav Kohen and Benthecarman from Suredbits.
• https://github.com/Suredbits
• Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZDungWdxzk&list=PLPwc75tPMdsgTYlu9dJZlosCm0s7WmIpF&index=22&ab_channel=WasabiWallet

2021-03-15 18:00 UTC - CJDNS

• Cjdns implements an encrypted IPv6 network using public-key cryptography for address allocation and a distributed hash table for routing.
• https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns
• Special Guest: Caleb James DeLisle
• Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P5sQwiwscI&list=PLPwc75tPMdsgTYlu9dJZlosCm0s7WmIpF&index=21&ab_channel=WasabiWallet

2020-12-21 18:00 UTC - Financial Cancel Culture

• A joint meeting with the Bitcoin Munich meetup group, presentation by Janine Römer, "that one privacy girl", who is an investigative journalist.
• We'll use the usual Wasabi Research link.
• Meetup event: https://www.meetup.com/Bitcoin-Munich/events/273866737/
• The main event starts at 19:00, but we can start a pre-meeting at 18:00.
• Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Mr71_7o68g&list=PLPwc75tPMdsgTYlu9dJZlosCm0s7WmIpF&index=20&ab_channel=WasabiWallet

2020-07-13 18:00 UTC - k-Anonymity, Recording Not Available

• Topic: Protecting Privacy when Disclosing Information: k-Anonymity and Its Enforcement through Generalization and Suppression - https://dataprivacylab.org/dataprivacy/projects/kanonymity/paper3.pdf

2020-06-15 18:00 UTC - CoinSwaps Part 1 - Chris Belcher, 2020

• Topic: An in-depth look into the work of Chris Belcher in his recent implementation of Coinswaps.
• https://gist.github.com/chris-belcher/9144bd57a91c194e332fb5ca371d0964 (Belcher, 2020)
• Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pqz7_Eqw9jM&list=PLPwc75tPMdsgTYlu9dJZlosCm0s7WmIpF&index=19&ab_channel=WasabiWallet

2020-06-08 18:00 UTC - Coinswaps Introduction Casual Discussion, Recording Not Available

• Topic: An Introduction in to Coinswaps
• https://gist.github.com/chris-belcher/9144bd57a91c194e332fb5ca371d0964 (Belcher, 2020)
• https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=321228.0 (Maxwell, 2013)

2020-05-04 18:00 UTC - WabiSabi: Confidential CoinJoin Construction - Protocol KVAC

• Topic: https://github.com/zkSNACKs/WabiSabi/issues/17
• Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvEXPs3KSj8&list=PLPwc75tPMdsgTYlu9dJZlosCm0s7WmIpF&index=18&ab_channel=WasabiWallet

2020-04-27 18:00 UTC - WabiSabi: Confidential CoinJoin Construction - Protocol ACL

• Topic: https://github.com/zkSNACKs/WabiSabi/issues/16
• Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3G6CUDPr0c&list=PLPwc75tPMdsgTYlu9dJZlosCm0s7WmIpF&index=17&ab_channel=WasabiWallet

2020-04-20 18:00 UTC - WabiSabi: Confidential CoinJoin Construction - Protocol BLS

• Topic: https://github.com/nopara73/Yohohoho/issues/5
• Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPD7IR2fn34&list=PLPwc75tPMdsgTYlu9dJZlosCm0s7WmIpF&index=16&ab_channel=WasabiWallet

2020-04-13 18:00 UTC - Anonymous Credentials

• Topic: Anonymous Credentials Light https://eprint.iacr.org/2012/298.pdf
• Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgErjQSQQsg&list=PLPwc75tPMdsgTYlu9dJZlosCm0s7WmIpF&index=15&ab_channel=WasabiWallet

2020-04-06 18:00 UTC - ZeroLink

• Topic: ZeroLink https://github.com/nopara73/ZeroLink/
• Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8v_apbGPKrI&list=PLPwc75tPMdsgTYlu9dJZlosCm0s7WmIpF&index=14&ab_channel=WasabiWallet

2020-03-30 20:00 UTC - Loopix (Nym)

• Topic: Loopix https://www.freehaven.net/anonbib/cache/loopix2017.pdf
• Implementation: Nym https://nymtech.net/docs/
• Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uf-EnLWawAE&list=PLPwc75tPMdsgTYlu9dJZlosCm0s7WmIpF&index=13&ab_channel=WasabiWallet

2020-03-23 20:00 UTC - Why I’m Not an Entropist

• Topic: Why I’m Not an Entropist https://www.freehaven.net/anonbib/cache/entropist.pdf
• Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl4yyXPy3q8&list=PLPwc75tPMdsgTYlu9dJZlosCm0s7WmIpF&index=12&ab_channel=WasabiWallet

2020-03-16 20:00 UTC - Boltzmann

• Topic: Boltzmann https://github.com/Samourai-Wallet/boltzmann
• Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYIDAqMSc4A&list=PLPwc75tPMdsgTYlu9dJZlosCm0s7WmIpF&index=11&ab_channel=WasabiWallet

2020-03-09 20:00 UTC - CoinJoin Sudoku

• Topic: CoinJoin Sudoku https://www.coinjoinsudoku.com/advisory/
• Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtmSylCQNIc&list=PLPwc75tPMdsgTYlu9dJZlosCm0s7WmIpF&index=10&ab_channel=WasabiWallet

2020-03-03 20:00 UTC - Anonymity loves company

• Topic: Anonymity loves company: Usability and the network effect https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228348285_Anonymity_loves_company_Usability_and_the_network_effect
• Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUWEoFJnuF0&list=PLPwc75tPMdsgTYlu9dJZlosCm0s7WmIpF&index=9&ab_channel=WasabiWallet

2020-02-24 20:00 UTC - CashFusion Part 2 - Combinatorics and Naive CoinJoins

• CashFusion/Avoiding Amount Linkages Through Combinatorics: https://github.com/cashshuffle/spec/blob/master/CASHFUSION.md#avoiding-amount-linkages-through-combinatorics
• Jonald Fyookball: Analyzing the Combinatoric Math in CashFusion - https://read.cash/@jonald_fyookball/analyzing-the-combinatoric-math-in-cashfusion-29943fb7
• James Waugh: Is CashFusion Really Anonymous? - https://medium.com/@james.waugh28/is-cashfusion-really-anonymous-352164a071c2
• bitcoin-dev mailing list: Non-equal value CoinJoins. (last thread) - https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2019-December/thread.html
• Twitted Discussion - https://twitter.com/nopara73/status/1210617257086337024
• Combinatorics Simulation Code in Python https://gist.github.com/fyookball/0b79a56b484063ac25d1ccaf22894dbb
• Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpLOSytc7vc&list=PLPwc75tPMdsgTYlu9dJZlosCm0s7WmIpF&index=8&ab_channel=WasabiWallet

2020-02-17 20:00 UTC - CashFusion Part 1 - Trust

• Topic: CashFusion - Trust - https://github.com/cashshuffle/spec/blob/master/CASHFUSION.md
• Special Guest: Jonald Fyookball
• Slides: https://github.com/zkSNACKs/WasabiResearchClub/blob/master/assets/cashfusion.pptx
• Slides (in PDF): https://github.com/zkSNACKs/WasabiResearchClub/blob/master/assets/cashfusion_ppt.pdf
• Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PEzEBF9_I0&list=PLPwc75tPMdsgTYlu9dJZlosCm0s7WmIpF&index=7&ab_channel=WasabiWallet

2020-02-10 20:00 UTC - CoinShuffle++ Part 2

• Topic: CoinShuffle++ - https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/ndss201701-4RuffingPaper.pdf
• Special Guest: Tim Ruffing
• Slides (in PDF): https://wasabiresearch.org/assets/coinshuffle++_explained_ruffing_ppt.pdf
• Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCZFAqB3bnU&list=PLPwc75tPMdsgTYlu9dJZlosCm0s7WmIpF&index=6&ab_channel=WasabiWallet

2020-02-03 20:00 UTC - CoinShuffle++ Part 1

• Topic: CoinShuffle++ - https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/ndss201701-4RuffingPaper.pdf
• Slides: https://wasabiresearch.org/assets/coinshuffle++.pptx
• Slides (in PDF): https://wasabiresearch.org/assets/coinshuffle++_ppt.pdf
• Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srkY1mYI0IQ&list=PLPwc75tPMdsgTYlu9dJZlosCm0s7WmIpF&index=5&ab_channel=WasabiWallet

2020-01-27 20:00 UTC - Dining Cryptographers

• Topic: Dining Cryptographer Networks - http://homepages.herts.ac.uk/~comqjs1/Dining.pdf
• Original Paper: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/people/egs/herbivore/dcnets.html (Chaum, 1988)
• Slides: https://wasabiresearch.org/assets/dining_cryptographers_networks.pptx
• Slides (in PDF): https://wasabiresearch.org/assets/dining_cryptographers_networks_ppt.pdf
• Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfXJLQ8UkFA&list=PLPwc75tPMdsgTYlu9dJZlosCm0s7WmIpF&index=4&ab_channel=WasabiWallet

2020-01-20 20:00 UTC - CoinShuffle

• Topic: CoinShuffle - https://petsymposium.org/2014/papers/Ruffing.pdf
• Important: CoinShuffle++ is outside the scope of this session, this session is about CoinShuffle, the first paper.
• Slides: https://github.com/zkSNACKs/WasabiResearchClub/blob/master/assets/Coinshuffle%2B%2B.pptx
• Slides (in PDF): https://github.com/zkSNACKs/WasabiResearchClub/blob/master/assets/coinshuffle%2B%2B_explained_ruffing_ppt.pdf
• Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVZDeEfSdcI&list=PLPwc75tPMdsgTYlu9dJZlosCm0s7WmIpF&index=3&ab_channel=WasabiWallet

2020-01-13 20:00 UTC - SNICKER

• Topic: SNICKER - https://gist.github.com/AdamISZ/2c13fb5819bd469ca318156e2cf25d79
• Slides: https://github.com/zkSNACKs/WasabiResearchClub/blob/master/assets/snicker.pptx
• Slides (in PDF): ToDo
• Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0C-50QTteA&list=PLPwc75tPMdsgTYlu9dJZlosCm0s7WmIpF&index=2&ab_channel=WasabiWallet

2020-01-06 20:00 UTC - Knapsack Mixing

• Topic: Anonymous CoinJoin Transactions with Arbitrary Values - https://www.comsys.rwth-aachen.de/fileadmin/papers/2017/2017-maurer-trustcom-coinjoin.pdf
• Notes: https://github.com/zkSNACKs/WasabiResearchClub/blob/master/assets/knapsack_mixing.md
• Slides: https://github.com/zkSNACKs/WasabiResearchClub/blob/master/assets/knapsack_coinjoin.pptx
• Slides (in PDF): https://github.com/zkSNACKs/WasabiResearchClub/blob/master/assets/knapsack_coinjoin.pptx
• Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDCQI7hrB58&list=PLPwc75tPMdsgTYlu9dJZlosCm0s7WmIpF&ab_channel=WasabiWallet