Blockchain Censorship

Reference

Anton Wahrstätter, Jens Ernstberger, Aviv Yaish, Liyi Zhou, Kaihua Qin, Taro Tsuchiya, Sebastian Steinhorst, Davor Svetinovic, Nicolas Christin, Mikołaj Barczentewicz and Arthur Gervais, ‘Blockchain Censorship’ in Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2024 (ACM 2024) 1632

Empirical study of how US OFAC sanctions on a Bitcoin mixer and an Ethereum application (Tornado Cash) tested the neutrality of permissionless blockchains, and of how far validators and block builders censor transactions.