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Bulletproofs: Short Proofs for Confidential Transactions and More

Range proofs whose size grows logarithmically, with no trusted setup. They made confidential amounts practical to verify. They are not, by themselves, a private payment system.

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Authors: Benedikt Bünz, Jonathan Bootle, Dan Boneh, Andrew Poelstra, Pieter Wuille and Greg Maxwell
Date: 2018
Publisher: Benedikt Bünz, Jonathan Bootle, Dan Boneh, Andrew Poelstra, Pieter Wuille and Greg Maxwell
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Document ID: BLC-STUDY-0072
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Last reviewed: 1 October 2026
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Range proofs whose size grows logarithmically, with no trusted setup. They made confidential amounts practical to verify. They are not, by themselves, a private payment system.

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Bünz, B., Bootle, J., Boneh, D., Poelstra, A., Wuille, P., & Maxwell, G. (2018). Bulletproofs: Short Proofs for Confidential Transactions and More. Benedikt Bünz, Jonathan Bootle, Dan Boneh, Andrew Poelstra, Pieter Wuille and Greg Maxwell. https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/1066

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@techreport{bulletproofs2018,
  title = {Bulletproofs: Short Proofs for Confidential Transactions and More},
  author = {Benedikt Bünz, Jonathan Bootle, Dan Boneh, Andrew Poelstra, Pieter Wuille and Greg Maxwell},
  year = {2018},
  institution = {Benedikt Bünz, Jonathan Bootle, Dan Boneh, Andrew Poelstra, Pieter Wuille and Greg Maxwell},
  url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/1066},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/bulletproofs}
}

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