Do the rich get richer? An empirical analysis of the Bitcoin transaction network

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Kondor, Dániel ^a   Pósfai, Márton ^a,b   Csabai, István ^a   Vattay, Gábor ^a  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BITCOIN; COMPUTER NETWORK; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LINEAR SYSTEM; MONEY; PEER TO PEER NETWORK; SOCIAL STATUS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; WEALTH;

DATABASES, GENETIC; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC;

EID: 84895544988     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0086197     Document Type: Article

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