Exploring miner evolution in bitcoin network

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

Volumn 8995, Issue , 2015, Pages 290-302

  Wang, Luqin ^a   Liu, Yong ^a  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bitcoin; Measurement; Network analysis

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ECONOMICS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; LAKES; MEASUREMENTS; MINERS; PEER TO PEER NETWORKS;

BITCOIN; BLOCK-CHAIN; COMPUTATION POWER; COMPUTATION RESOURCES; ECONOMIC MODELING; GENERAL PUBLICS; IN-DEPTH STUDY; SPECIALIZED HARDWARE;

ELECTRONIC MONEY;

EID: 84924408978     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-15509-8_22     Document Type: Conference Paper

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