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most citedThe Unreasonable Effectiveness of Address Clustering

106 citations · 155 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.GT2023

Emergent Outcomes of the veToken Model

Thomas Lloyd, Daire O'Broin, Martin Harrigan

Decentralised organisations use blockchains for governance: on-chain transactions allocate voting weight, publish proposals, cast votes, and enact the results. A key challenge is a…

cs.CR2020

The Bisq Decentralised Exchange: On the Privacy Cost of Participation

Liam Hickey, Martin Harrigan

The Bisq Trade Protocol and the Bisq Decentralised Autonomous Organisation (DAO) are core components of Bisq, a decentralised cryptocurrency exchange. The Bisq Trade Protocol syste…

cs.CR2018

Airdrops and Privacy: A Case Study in Cross-Blockchain Analysis

Martin Harrigan, Lei Shi, Jacob Illum

Airdrops are a popular method of distributing cryptocurrencies and tokens. While often considered risk-free from the point of view of recipients, their impact on privacy is easily…

cs.CR2016★ 106 cited

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Address Clustering

Martin Harrigan, Christoph Fretter

Address clustering tries to construct the one-to-many mapping from entities to addresses in the Bitcoin system. Simple heuristics based on the micro-structure of transactions have…

cs.SI2012★ 11 cited

Identifying Discriminating Network Motifs in YouTube Spam

Derek O'Callaghan, Martin Harrigan, Joe Carthy +1

Like other social media websites, YouTube is not immune from the attention of spammers. In particular, evidence can be found of attempts to attract users to malicious third-party w…

cs.SI2012

Network Analysis of Recurring YouTube Spam Campaigns

Derek O'Callaghan, Martin Harrigan, Joe Carthy +1

As the popularity of content sharing websites such as YouTube and Flickr has increased, they have become targets for spam, phishing and the distribution of malware. On YouTube, the…

physics.soc-ph2011★ 38 cited

An Analysis of Anonymity in the Bitcoin System

Fergal Reid, Martin Harrigan

Anonymity in Bitcoin, a peer-to-peer electronic currency system, is a complicated issue. Within the system, users are identified by public-keys only. An attacker wishing to de-anon…