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POSTER:I Don't Want That Content! On the Risks of Exploiting Bitcoin's Blockchain as a Content Store

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OliverHohlfeld,

Jan HenrikZiegeldorf,

KlausWehrleAuthors Info & Claims

CCS '16: Proceedings of the 2016 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security

Pages1769 -1771

https://doi.org/10.1145/2976749.2989059

Published:24 October 2016Publication History

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Bitcoin has revolutionized digital currencies and its underlying blockchain has been successfully applied to other domains. To be verifiable by every participating peer, the blockchain maintains every transaction in a persistent, distributed, and tamper-proof log that every participant needs to replicate locally. While this constitutes the central innovation of blockchain technology and is thus a desired property, it can also be abused in ways that are harmful to the overall system. We show for Bitcoin that blockchains potentially provide multiple ways to store (malicious and illegal) content that, once stored, cannot be removed and is replicated by every participating user. We study the evolution of content storage in Bitcoin's blockchain, classify the stored content, and highlight implications of allowing the storage of arbitrary data in globally replicated blockchains.

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CCS '16: Proceedings of the 2016 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security

October 2016

1924 pages

ISBN:9781450341394

DOI:10.1145/2976749

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Edgar Weippl
SBA Research, Austria
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TU Darmstadt, CYSEC, Germany
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University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
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Andrew Myers
Cornell University, USA
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IBM Research, USA

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RomanMatzutt

Communication and Distributed Systems, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

OliverHohlfeld

Communication and Distributed Systems, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

MartinHenze

Communication and Distributed Systems, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

RobinRawiel

Communication and Distributed Systems, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

Jan HenrikZiegeldorf

Communication and Distributed Systems, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

KlausWehrle

Communication and Distributed Systems, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

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