I Am Not Satoshi
This is not even the first paper by Dorit Ron and Shamir on Bitcoin; they did an analysis of the transaction graph earlier: <a href="http://eprint.iacr.org/2012/584.pdf‎" rel="nofollow">http://eprint.iacr.org/2012/584.pdf‎</a><p>And that one too was quite poorly done; from the text, it actually seemed like they thought that "the blockchain" is a file stored on blockchain.info. Disappointing from the inventor of Shamir's Secret Sharing and differential cryptanalysis.