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Raphtory: The temporal graph engine for Rust and Python
Ben Steer, Naomi Arnold, Cheick Tidiane Ba +15
Raphtory is a platform for building and analysing temporal networks. The library includes methods for creating networks from a variety of data sources; algorithms to explore their…
Non-Markovian paths and cycles in NFT trades
Haaroon Yousaf, Naomi A. Arnold, Renaud Lambiotte +5
Recent years have witnessed the availability of richer and richer datasets in a variety of domains, where signals often have a multi-modal nature, blending temporal, relational and…
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…
Investigating transactions in cryptocurrencies
Haaroon Yousaf
This thesis presents techniques to investigate transactions in uncharted cryptocurrencies and services. Cryptocurrencies are used to securely send payments online. Payments via the…
Forsage: Anatomy of a Smart-Contract Pyramid Scheme
Tyler Kell, Haaroon Yousaf, Sarah Allen +2
Pyramid schemes are investment scams in which top-level participants in a hierarchical network recruit and profit from an expanding base of defrauded newer participants. Pyramid sc…
An Empirical Analysis of Privacy in the Lightning Network
George Kappos, Haaroon Yousaf, Ania Piotrowska +4
Payment channel networks, and the Lightning Network in particular, seem to offer a solution to the lack of scalability and privacy offered by Bitcoin and other blockchain-based cry…
Incentivising Privacy in Cryptocurrencies
Sarah Azouvi, Haaroon Yousaf, Alexander Hicks
Privacy was one of the key points mentioned in Nakamoto's Bitcoin whitepaper, and one of the selling points of Bitcoin in its early stages. In hindsight, however, de-anonymising Bi…
Why is a Ravencoin Like a TokenDesk? An Exploration of Code Diversity in the Cryptocurrency Landscape
Pierre Reibel, Haaroon Yousaf, Sarah Meiklejohn
Interest in cryptocurrencies has skyrocketed since their introduction a decade ago, with hundreds of billions of dollars now invested across a landscape of thousands of different c…
Tracing Transactions Across Cryptocurrency Ledgers
Haaroon Yousaf, George Kappos, Sarah Meiklejohn
One of the defining features of a cryptocurrency is that its ledger, containing all transactions that have evertaken place, is globally visible. As one consequenceof this degree of…
An Empirical Analysis of Anonymity in Zcash
George Kappos, Haaroon Yousaf, Mary Maller +1
Among the now numerous alternative cryptocurrencies derived from Bitcoin, Zcash is often touted as the one with the strongest anonymity guarantees, due to its basis in well-regarde…