A fistful of bitcoins: Characterizing payments among men with no names

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 127-139

  Meiklejohn, Sarah ^a   Pomarole, Marjori ^a   Jordan, Grant ^a   Levchenko, Kirill ^a   McCoy, Damon ^b   Voelker, Geoffrey M ^a   Savage, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anonymity; Bitcoin; Measurement

Indexed keywords

ANONYMITY; BITCOIN; PEER-TO-PEER PROTOCOLS; RE IDENTIFICATIONS; VIRTUAL CURRENCY;

MEASUREMENTS;

EID: 84890039053     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2504730.2504747     Document Type: Conference Paper

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