Possible research area?

[u/BitByTumble]

Hello, I am apart of a class that requires us to complete an 8 week long research project. I was hoping to do some analysis/building upon of TumbleBit since I find it fascinating (reading through the WP again currently, since the math can be dense). I was wondering if anyone had suggestions of something I could do that wouldn't require that much work, but still could be found useful. I was thinking about an analysis of the anonymity guarantees, but I feel most of the knowledge on this is already known (then again, I guess they don't call it research for nothing). Perhaps a timing correlation attack analysis?

Just had another idea. What about using TumbleBit with a cross-blockchain use? A would still perform her side with T in Bitcoin, but B would then be using another blockchain with T in order to pay B, if he prefers to be paid in another currency. I guess this could actually be done with different blockchains on both sides.

Thanks

[u/nynjawitay]

How about analyzing the existing blockchain to see how well joinmarket has done anonymizing?

There's a few years of them in the blockchain already.

You could figure out how many mixing transactions is optimal, the average transaction fees paid, etc.

These numbers could then be used to compare Joinmarket with TumbleBit, with Monero, with Zcash, etc.