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Review for D20

[D20]

Fair and Private Bitcoin Rewards: Incentivizing Participation in Crowd-Sensing Applications

(IEEE International Conference on Decentralized Applications and Infrastructures)

"Our protocol allows users to submit data and obtain Bitcoin payments in a privacy-preserving manner, preventing curious providers from linking the data or the payments back to the user."

Introduction

Motivation:

  • collecting information from user devices has important privacy implications
  • rewarding is a challenging problem as only authenticated users should be able to submit data and obtain rewards
  • fairness