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physics.soc-ph2024★ 1 cited

A Theoretical Model of False Information Control

Yu Zhang, Fanyuan Meng, Vallarano Nicolò +1

When considering a specific event, news that accurately reflects the ground truth is deemed as real information, while news that deviates from the ground truth is classified as fal…

physics.soc-ph2023★ 3 cited

Temporal networks with node-specific memory: unbiased inference of transition probabilities, relaxation times and structural breaks

Giulio Virginio Clemente, Claudio J. Tessone, Diego Garlaschelli

One of the main challenges in the study of time-varying networks is the interplay of memory effects with structural heterogeneity. In particular, different nodes and dyads can have…

physics.soc-ph2022★ 15 cited

The Evolution Of Centralisation on Cryptocurrency Platforms

Carlo Campajola, Raffaele Cristodaro, Francesco Maria De Collibus +3

More than ten years ago the blockchain was acclaimed as the solution to overcome centralised trusted third parties for online payments. Through the years the crypto-movement change…

physics.soc-ph2021★ 25 cited

The Weighted Bitcoin Lightning Network

Jian-Hong Lin, Emiliano Marchese, Claudio J. Tessone +1

The Bitcoin Lightning Network (BLN) was launched in 2018 to scale up the number of transactions between Bitcoin owners. Although several contributions concerning the analysis of th…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 52 cited

Bitcoin Transaction Networks: an overview of recent results

Nicolò Vallarano, Claudio Tessone, Tiziano Squartini

Cryptocurrencies are distributed systems that allow exchanges of native (and non-) tokens among participants. The complete historical bookkeeping and its wide availability opens up…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 70 cited

Lightning Network: a second path towards centralisation of the Bitcoin economy

Jian-Hong Lin, Kevin Primicerio, Tiziano Squartini +2

The Bitcoin Lightning Network (BLN), a so-called "second layer" payment protocol, was launched in 2018 to scale up the number of transactions between Bitcoin owners. In this paper,…

physics.soc-ph2019★ 3 cited

A data-driven model for Mass Media influence in electoral context

Federico Albanese, Claudio J. Tessone, Viktoriya Semeshenko +1

Mass Media outlets have occupied the central role of the political scenario, and are persuasive in the process of opinion formation of the citizens. In particular, the study of the…

physics.soc-ph2018★ 2 cited

Network-based indicators of Bitcoin bubbles

Alexandre Bovet, Carlo Campajola, Jorge F. Lazo +7

The functioning of the cryptocurrency Bitcoin relies on the open availability of the entire history of its transactions. This makes it a particularly interesting socio-economic sys…