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5 papers
GraphSense: A General-Purpose Cryptoasset Analytics Platform
Bernhard Haslhofer, Rainer Stütz, Matteo Romiti +1
There is currently an increasing demand for cryptoasset analysis tools among cryptoasset service providers, the financial industry in general, as well as across academic fields. At…
Cross-Layer Deanonymization Methods in the Lightning Protocol
Matteo Romiti, Friedhelm Victor, Pedro Moreno-Sanchez +3
Bitcoin (BTC) pseudonyms (layer 1) can effectively be deanonymized using heuristic clustering techniques. However, while performing transactions off-chain (layer 2) in the Lightnin…
All that Glitters is not Bitcoin -- Unveiling the Centralized Nature of the BTC (IP) Network
Sami Ben Mariem, Pedro Casas, Matteo Romiti +3
Blockchains are typically managed by peer-to-peer (P2P) networks providing the support and substrate to the so-called distributed ledger (DLT), a replicated, shared, and synchroniz…
Spams meet Cryptocurrencies: Sextortion in the Bitcoin Ecosystem
Masarah Paquet-Clouston, Matteo Romiti, Bernhard Haslhofer +1
In the past year, a new spamming scheme has emerged: sexual extortion messages requiring payments in the cryptocurrency Bitcoin, also known as sextortion. This scheme represents a…
A Deep Dive into Bitcoin Mining Pools: An Empirical Analysis of Mining Shares
Matteo Romiti, Aljosha Judmayer, Alexei Zamyatin +1
Miners play a key role in cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin: they invest substantial computational resources in processing transactions and minting new currency units. It is well kn…