Malte Möser mmoeser@cs.princeton.edu
Hello and welcome! I'm a fourth-year PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at Princeton University and a Graduate Student Fellow at the Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP).
My research focuses on the security, privacy and regulation of cryptographic currencies. I'm advised by Arvind Narayanan.
Previously, I was a research assistant in the Information Security Research Group of Rainer Böhme and completed my bachelor and master studies in Information Systems at the University of Münster in Germany.
Find me on GitHub, Twitter, Instagram, VSCO or Google Scholar.
Contact
Send me an email if you have questions about my work, want to learn more about living and studying in Princeton, or just want to say hi.
If you have specific questions about BlockSci, the best way to ask them is by opening an issue on GitHub or by reaching out to the team at blocksci@lists.cs.princeton.edu.
Note: my US student visa does not permit me to provide consulting or paid work.
Recent News
2020- I took part in a scientific mass collaboration on measuring the predictability of life outcomes. A paper describing the experiment and findings is out now.
- I'm staying home and washing my hands. Stay safe out there!
Publications
2019Effective Cryptocurrency Regulation Through Blacklisting
Malte Möser and Arvind Narayanan.
Techreport.
[Paper]
An Empirical Analysis of Traceability in the Monero Blockchain
Malte Möser, Kyle Soska, Ethan Heilman, Kevin Lee, Henry Heffan, Shashvat Srivastava, Kyle Hogan, Jason Hennessey, Andrew Miller, Arvind Narayanan, and Nicolas Christin.
Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, Volume 2018, Issue 3, pp 143-163.
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Why Preventing a Cryptocurrency Heist Isn't Good Enough
Patrick McCorry, Malte Möser, and Taha Ali.
Twenty-sixth International Workshop on Security Protocols (SPW). March 2018.
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BlockSci: Design and applications of a blockchain analysis platform
Harry Kalodner, Steven Goldfeder, Alishah Chator, Malte Möser, and Arvind Narayanan.
Techreport. September 2017.
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The Price of Anonymity: Empirical Evidence from a Market for Bitcoin Anonymization
Malte Möser and Rainer Böhme.
Journal of Cybersecurity. Volume 3, Issue 2, 1 June 2017, pp. 127–135.
[Oxford Academic]
Obfuscation in Bitcoin: Techniques and Politics
Arvind Narayanan and Malte Möser.
International Workshop on Obfuscation: Science, Technology, and Theory. June 2017.
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An Empirical Analysis of Linkability in the Monero Blockchain
Andrew Miller, Malte Möser, Kevin Lee and Arvind Narayanan.
Techreport, April 2017.
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Anonymous Alone? Measuring Bitcoin's Second-Generation Anonymization Techniques
Malte Möser and Rainer Böhme.
In IEEE Security & Privacy on the Blockchain (IEEE S&B). Paris, France, April 2017.
[PDF] – [IEEE]
Join Me on a Market for Anonymity
Malte Möser and Rainer Böhme.
In The 15th Annual Workshop on the Economics of Information Security. Berkeley, USA, June 2016.
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Towards Bitcoin Payment Networks
Patrick McCorry, Malte Möser, Siamak F. Shahandashti, and Feng Hao.
Invited paper for the 21st Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ACISP 2016). Melbourne, Australia, July 2016.
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Bitcoin Covenants
Malte Möser, Ittay Eyal and Emin Gün Sirer.
In 3rd Workshop on Bitcoin and Blockchain Research (BITCOIN 2016). Barbados, February 2016.
[PDF] – [Springer] – [Blog]
Trends, Tips, Tolls: A Longitudinal Study of Bitcoin Transaction Fees
Malte Möser and Rainer Böhme.
In 2nd Workshop on Bitcoin Research. Puerto Rico, January 2015.
[PDF] – [Springer]
Towards Risk Scoring of Bitcoin Transactions
Malte Möser, Rainer Böhme and Dominic Breuker.
In 1st Workshop on Bitcoin Research. Barbados, March 2014.
[PDF] – [Springer]
An Inquiry into Money Laundering Tools in the Bitcoin Ecosystem
Malte Möser, Rainer Böhme and Dominic Breuker.
In Proceedings of the APWG eCrime Researchers Summit (ECRIME 2013). San Francisco, USA, September 2013.
[PDF] – [IEEE]
Teaching
Graduate Student Teaching Assistant Award
Department of Computer Science, Princeton University. June 2018.
COS 461: Computer Networks
Spring 2018, Princeton University, [Website]
COS 432: Information Security
Fall 2017, Princeton University, [Website]
Talks
2019Effective Cryptocurrency Regulation Through Blacklisting
UBRI Connect, Berkeley, CA, USA. October 2019.
Towards Better Privacy With Monero
Cryptocurrencies and Distributed Ledger Class 2019, King's College London, UK (Remote Talk). February 2019. [Slides]
2018Towards Better Privacy With Monero
Symposium on Post-Bitcoin Cryptocurrencies, Vienna, Austria. October 2018. [Slides]
An Empirical Analysis of Traceability in the Monero Blockchain
Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), Barcelona, Spain. July 2018. [Slides]
Empirical Blockchain Analysis
Wharton Reg@Tech: Regulatory Approaches to Cryptocurrencies and Token Sales, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, PA. March 2018.
Cryptocurrency privacy: research-based guidelines for protocol designers.
Blockchain Protocol Analysis and Security Engineering (BPASE), Stanford University, CA. January 2018. [Video]
2017Anonymous Alone? On the Anonymity of Cryptographic Currencies
Lunchtime Seminar, Department of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck, Austria. December 2017.
Anonymous Alone? Measuring Bitcoin's Second-Generation Anonymization Techniques
IEEE Security & Privacy on the Blockchain (IEEE S&B), Paris, France. April 2017.
Obfuscation in Bitcoin: Techniques and Politics
International Workshop on Obfuscation, New York City, NY. April 2017. Joint presentation with Arvind Narayanan.
2016Join Me on a Market for Anonymity
15th Annual Workshop on the Economics of Information Security, Berkeley, CA. June 2016.
Bitcoin Covenants
IACR Summer School on Blockchain Technologies, Corfu. May 2016.
Bitcoin Covenants
3rd Workshop on Bitcoin and Blockchain Research, Barbados. February 2016.
2015Bitcoin im Visier: Herausforderungen und Potenziale kryptografischer Währungen
Deutsches Forschungsnetz (DFN). Bonn, Germany. December 2015.
From Blockchain to Consensus: Design and Challenges of Cryptographic Currencies.
CoCo Seminar Series, University of Binghamton, Binghamton, NY. October 2015. [Video]
Trends, Tips, Tolls: A Longitudinal Study of Bitcoin Transaction Fees
2nd Workshop on Bitcoin Research, Puerto Rico. January 2015.
2014Bitcoin: Prinzipien und Herausforderungen.
Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband, Kassel, Germany. September 2014.
Towards Risk Scoring of Bitcoin Transactions
1st Workshop on Bitcoin Research, Barbados. March 2014.
2013Von Pseudonymität und Anonymität – kann man Bitcoins zurückverfolgen?
Bitcoin-Konferenz, Cologne, Germany. October 2013.
An Inquiry into Money Laundering Tools in the Bitcoin Ecosystem
APWG eCrime Researchers Summit, San Francisco, CA. September 2013.