Cryptomarkets (or darknet markets) are commercial hidden-service websites that operate on The Onion Router (Tor) anonymity network. Cryptomarkets accept primarily bitcoin as payment since bitcoin is pseudonymous. Understanding bitcoin transaction patterns in cryptomarkets is important for analyzing vulnerabilities of privacy protection models in cryptocurrecies. It is also important for law enforcement to track illicit online crime activities in cryptomarkets. In this paper, we discover interesting characteristics of bitcoin transaction patterns in cryptomarkets. The results demonstrate that the privacy protection mechanism in cryptomarkets and bitcoin is vulnerable. Adversaries can easily gain valuable information for analyzing trading act...
Recently, more than 100,000 cases for ransomware attacks were reported in the Middle East, Turkey an...
Bitcoin is a digital currency that has recently gathered significant interest. From ecommercesites t...
Bitcoin and many other similar Cryptocurrencies have been in existence for over a decade, prominentl...
Cryptomarkets (or darknet markets) are commercial hidden-service websites that operate on The Onion ...
This thesis presents techniques to investigate transactions in uncharted cryptocur- rencies and serv...
Cryptocurrencies acquire user confidence by making the whole creation and transaction history transp...
While public and private entities question the utility of privacy preserving means of electronic pay...
© The Author(s) 2019. Cryptocurrencies are among the largest unregulated markets in the world. We fi...
peer reviewedBitcoin, introduced in 2008 and launched in 2009, is the first digital currency to solv...
This paper investigates the anonymity of bitcoin transactions and significance of awareness of ...
Bitcoin is the first digital currency without a trusted third party. This revolutionary protocol all...
Cryptocurrencies acquire user confidence by making the whole creation and transaction history trans...
With the rapid increase of threats on the Internet, people are continuously seeking privacy and anon...
Dark Web cryptomarkets represent a phenomenon in modern criminality and their study is of key import...
<p>We investigate to which degree one could trace Bitcoin transactions and characterize purchasing b...
Recently, more than 100,000 cases for ransomware attacks were reported in the Middle East, Turkey an...
Bitcoin is a digital currency that has recently gathered significant interest. From ecommercesites t...
Bitcoin and many other similar Cryptocurrencies have been in existence for over a decade, prominentl...
Cryptomarkets (or darknet markets) are commercial hidden-service websites that operate on The Onion ...
This thesis presents techniques to investigate transactions in uncharted cryptocur- rencies and serv...
Cryptocurrencies acquire user confidence by making the whole creation and transaction history transp...
While public and private entities question the utility of privacy preserving means of electronic pay...
© The Author(s) 2019. Cryptocurrencies are among the largest unregulated markets in the world. We fi...
peer reviewedBitcoin, introduced in 2008 and launched in 2009, is the first digital currency to solv...
This paper investigates the anonymity of bitcoin transactions and significance of awareness of ...
Bitcoin is the first digital currency without a trusted third party. This revolutionary protocol all...
Cryptocurrencies acquire user confidence by making the whole creation and transaction history trans...
With the rapid increase of threats on the Internet, people are continuously seeking privacy and anon...
Dark Web cryptomarkets represent a phenomenon in modern criminality and their study is of key import...
<p>We investigate to which degree one could trace Bitcoin transactions and characterize purchasing b...
Recently, more than 100,000 cases for ransomware attacks were reported in the Middle East, Turkey an...
Bitcoin is a digital currency that has recently gathered significant interest. From ecommercesites t...
Bitcoin and many other similar Cryptocurrencies have been in existence for over a decade, prominentl...