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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…
Safeguarding the Evidential Value of Forensic Cryptocurrency Investigations
Michael Fröwis, Thilo Gottschalk, Bernhard Haslhofer +2
Analyzing cryptocurrency payment flows has become a key forensic method in law enforcement and is nowadays used to investigate a wide spectrum of criminal activities. However, desp…
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…
Predicting Time-to-Failure of Plasma Etching Equipment using Machine Learning
Anahid Jalali, Clemens Heistracher, Alexander Schindler +5
Predicting unscheduled breakdowns of plasma etching equipment can reduce maintenance costs and production losses in the semiconductor industry. However, plasma etching is a complex…
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…