3 papers
cs.CY2019
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…
physics.soc-ph2019
Analyzing Hack Subnetworks in the Bitcoin Transaction Graph
Daniel Goldsmith, Kim Grauer, Yonah Shmalo
Hacks are one of the most damaging types of cryptocurrency related crime, accounting for billions of dollars in stolen funds since 2009. Professional investigators at Chainalysis h…
q-fin.MF2018
Topological recognition of critical transitions in time series of cryptocurrencies
Marian Gidea, Daniel Goldsmith, Yuri Katz +2
We analyze the time series of four major cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, and Ripple) before the digital market crash at the end of 2017 - beginning 2018. We introduc…