Fraud detections for online businesses: a perspective from blockchain technology

Financial Innovation

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Cai, Yuanfeng ^a   Zhu, Dan ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blockchain; Fraud detection; Rating fraud; Reputation systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 85057092798     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21994730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40854-016-0039-4     Document Type: Article

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