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Dandelion: Redesigning the Bitcoin Network for Anonymity

Forward the transaction along a line, in a stem phase, and only then broadcast it, in a fluff phase, so the first flood is not centred on the sender.

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Authors: Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan, Giulia Fanti and Pramod Viswanath
Date: 2017
Publisher: Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan, Giulia Fanti and Pramod Viswanath
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Document ID: BLC-STUDY-0167
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Last reviewed: 1 October 2026
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Forward the transaction along a line, in a stem phase, and only then broadcast it, in a fluff phase, so the first flood is not centred on the sender.

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Venkatakrishnan, S. B., Fanti, G., & Viswanath, P. (2017). Dandelion: Redesigning the Bitcoin Network for Anonymity. Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan, Giulia Fanti and Pramod Viswanath. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1701.04439

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@techreport{dandelion2017,
  title = {Dandelion: Redesigning the Bitcoin Network for Anonymity},
  author = {Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan, Giulia Fanti and Pramod Viswanath},
  year = {2017},
  institution = {Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan, Giulia Fanti and Pramod Viswanath},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/1701.04439},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/dandelion}
}

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