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Spams meet Cryptocurrencies: Sextortion in the Bitcoin Ecosystem
Masarah Paquet-Clouston, Matteo Romiti, Bernhard Haslhofer +1
In the past year, a new spamming scheme has emerged: sexual extortion messages requiring payments in the cryptocurrency Bitcoin, also known as sextortion. This scheme represents a…
A Deep Dive into Bitcoin Mining Pools: An Empirical Analysis of Mining Shares
Matteo Romiti, Aljosha Judmayer, Alexei Zamyatin +1
Miners play a key role in cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin: they invest substantial computational resources in processing transactions and minting new currency units. It is well kn…
An Empirical Analysis of Monero Cross-Chain Traceability
Abraham Hinteregger, Bernhard Haslhofer
Monero is a privacy-centric cryptocurrency that makes payments untraceable by adding decoys to every real input spent in a transaction. Two studies from 2017 found methods to disti…