Beware the middleman: Empirical analysis of Bitcoin-exchange risk

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7859 LNCS, Issue , 2013, Pages 25-33

  Moore, Tyler ^a   Christin, Nicolas ^b  

^a SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bitcoin; currency exchanges; cybercrime; security economics

Indexed keywords

BITCOIN; CURRENCY EXCHANGE; CYBERCRIME; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SECURITY BREACHES; SECURITY ECONOMICS;

CRYPTOGRAPHY; SECURITY OF DATA;

ECONOMICS;

EID: 84883269768     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-39884-1_3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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