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Identifying key players in dark web marketplaces
Elohim Fonseca dos Reis, Alexander Teytelboym, Abeer ElBahraw +2
Dark web marketplaces have been a significant outlet for illicit trade, serving millions of users worldwide for over a decade. However, not all users are the same. This paper aims…
Macroscopic properties of buyer-seller networks in online marketplaces
Alberto Bracci, Jörn Boehnke, Abeer ElBahrawy +3
Online marketplaces are the main engines of legal and illegal e-commerce, yet their empirical properties are poorly understood due to the absence of large-scale data. We analyze tw…
Emergence and structure of decentralised trade networks around dark web marketplaces
Matthieu Nadini, Alberto Bracci, Abeer ElBahrawy +3
Dark web marketplaces (DWMs) are online platforms that facilitate illicit trade among millions of users generating billions of dollars in annual revenue. Recently, two interview-ba…
Collective Dynamics of Dark Web Marketplaces
Abeer ElBahrawy, Laura Alessandretti, Leonid Rusnac +3
Dark markets are commercial websites that use Bitcoin to sell or broker transactions involving drugs, weapons, and other illicit goods. Being illegal, they do not offer any user pr…
Wikipedia and Digital Currencies: Interplay Between Collective Attention and Market Performance
Abeer ElBahrawy, Laura Alessandretti, Andrea Baronchelli
The production and consumption of information about Bitcoin and other digital-, or 'crypto'-, currencies have grown together with their market capitalisation. However, a systematic…
Anticipating cryptocurrency prices using machine learning
Laura Alessandretti, Abeer ElBahrawy, Luca Maria Aiello +1
Machine learning and AI-assisted trading have attracted growing interest for the past few years. Here, we use this approach to test the hypothesis that the inefficiency of the cryp…
Evolutionary dynamics of the cryptocurrency market
Abeer ElBahrawy, Laura Alessandretti, Anne Kandler +2
The cryptocurrency market surpassed the barrier of $100 billion market capitalization in June 2017, after months of steady growth. Despite its increasing relevance in the financia…