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Eclipse Attacks on Bitcoin's Peer-to-Peer Network

Fill a node's peer table with attacker addresses so every connection the node opens lands on the attacker. The node can then be fed a private view of blocks and transactions.

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Authors: Ethan Heilman, Alison Kendler, Aviv Zohar and Sharon Goldberg
Date: 2015
Publisher: Ethan Heilman, Alison Kendler, Aviv Zohar and Sharon Goldberg
Version: Source cited by the 2015 study. The study is the reading. This page does not add a second essay.
Document ID: BLC-STUDY-0153
DOI: None recorded
Last reviewed: 1 October 2026
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Fill a node's peer table with attacker addresses so every connection the node opens lands on the attacker. The node can then be fed a private view of blocks and transactions.

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Canonical readingEclipse Attacks study
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Related paperBitcoin Backbone

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Heilman, E., Kendler, A., Zohar, A., & Goldberg, S. (2015). Eclipse Attacks on Bitcoin's Peer-to-Peer Network. Ethan Heilman, Alison Kendler, Aviv Zohar and Sharon Goldberg. https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/263

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@techreport{eclipseattacks2015,
  title = {Eclipse Attacks on Bitcoin's Peer-to-Peer Network},
  author = {Ethan Heilman, Alison Kendler, Aviv Zohar and Sharon Goldberg},
  year = {2015},
  institution = {Ethan Heilman, Alison Kendler, Aviv Zohar and Sharon Goldberg},
  url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/263},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/eclipse-attacks}
}

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N1  - Rights status: Official external source only
ER  -

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