An analysis of anonymity in the Bitcoin system

Proceedings - 2011 IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust and IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, PASSAT/SocialCom 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1318-1326

  Reid, Fergal ^a   Harrigan, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT DISCOVERY; ELECTRONIC CURRENCY; FLOW ANALYSIS; MARKET VALUES; NON-TRIVIAL; PEER TO PEER; PUBLIC KEYS; TOPOLOGICAL STRUCTURE;

CRIME; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; TOPOLOGY;

PEER TO PEER NETWORKS;

EID: 84856200215     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PASSAT/SocialCom.2011.79     Document Type: Conference Paper

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