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20202026
most citedAll that Glitters is not Bitcoin -- Unveiling the Centralized Nature of the BTC (IP) Network

28 citations · 44 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

cs.CR2026

Reuse of Public Keys Across UTXO and Account-Based Cryptocurrencies

Rainer Stütz, Nicholas Stifter, Melitta Dragaschnig +2

It is well known that reusing cryptocurrency addresses undermines privacy. This also applies if the same addresses are used in different cryptocurrencies. Nevertheless, cross-chain…

cs.CR2022★ 8 cited

How to Peel a Million: Validating and Expanding Bitcoin Clusters

George Kappos, Haaroon Yousaf, Rainer Stütz +3

One of the defining features of Bitcoin and the thousands of cryptocurrencies that have been derived from it is a globally visible transaction ledger. While Bitcoin uses pseudonyms…

cs.CR2021★ 5 cited

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…

cs.NI2020★ 28 cited

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…

cs.CR2020★ 3 cited

Stake Shift in Major Cryptocurrencies: An Empirical Study

Rainer Stütz, Peter Gaži, Bernhard Haslhofer +1

In the proof-of-stake (PoS) paradigm for maintaining decentralized, permissionless cryptocurrencies, Sybil attacks are prevented by basing the distribution of roles in the protocol…