jgarzik

This is a review of "Quantitative Analysis of the Full Bitcoin Transaction Graph" by Dorit Ron and Adi Shamir.

There are some incorrect details and analyses that warrant attention.

Oct. 31 UPDATE

The authors have introduced several revisions to their paper, available at the same URL as before.

The criticism below may be outdated in part or in full.

shenfeng

__author__ = 'feng'


def is_match(patten, str):
    match_index = 0
    for idx, c in enumerate(patten):
        if c == '?':
            match_index += 1
        elif c == '*':
            if idx == len(patten) - 1: