Exploring the Bitcoin network

WEBIST 2014 - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies

Volumn 1, Issue , 2014, Pages 369-374

  Baumann, Annika ^a   Fabian, Benjamin ^a   Lischke, Matthias ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bitcoin; Electronic cash; Network analysis

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTRONIC MONEY; GRAPHIC METHODS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE;

DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS; EXCHANGE RATES; GRAPH MINING; GRAPH-BASED; NETWORK USAGE; SCALE-FREE DEGREE; SMALL WORLDS; STRUCTURAL LEVELS;

BITCOIN;

EID: 84902384491     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.5220/0004937303690374     Document Type: Article

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