Bitcoin: Under the hood

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 58, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 104-113

  Zohar, Aviv ^a,b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOLLAR VALUE; FUTURE WORTH; POTENTIAL IMPACTS;

ELECTRONIC MONEY;

EID: 84940385440     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2701411     Document Type: Review

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