2 papers
cs.CY2020
Dark Web Marketplaces and COVID-19: before the vaccine
Alberto Bracci, Matthieu Nadini, Maxwell Aliapoulios +5
The COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped the demand for goods and services worldwide. The combination of a public health emergency, economic distress, and misinformation-driven panic hav…
q-fin.ST2020
From code to market: Network of developers and correlated returns of cryptocurrencies
Lorenzo Lucchini, Laura Alessandretti, Bruno Lepri +2
"Code is law" is the funding principle of cryptocurrencies. The security, transferability, availability and other properties of a crypto-asset are determined by the code through wh…