Many cryptocurrencies have come into existence in recent years, with Bitcoin the most
prominent among them. Although its short history has been volatile, the virtual currency …

This paper identifies trust factor and rewarding nature of bitcoin system, and analyzes bitcoin
features which may facilitate bitcoin to emerge as a universal currency. Paper presents the …

Bitcoin, a distributed, peer to peer crypto currency, has gained a significant popularity
among different users around the world by promising users a fully decentralized network …

Bitcoin is a purely online virtual currency, unbacked by either physical commodities or
sovereign obligation; instead, it relies on a combination of cryptographic protection and a …

We present the first large-scale survey to investigate how users experience the Bitcoin
ecosystem in terms of security, privacy and anonymity. We surveyed 990 Bitcoin users to …

Bitcoin is a crypto-currency-based open-source technology that operates in the peer-to-peer
grid as a private payment mechanism. Bitcoin works on sophisticated cryptography …

Bitcoin, a peer-to-peer payment system and digital currency, is often involved in illicit
activities such as scamming, ransomware attacks, illegal goods trading, and thievery. At the …

Bitcoin system (or Bitcoin) is a peer-to-peer and decentralized payment system that uses
cryptocurrency named bitcoins (BTCs) and was released as open-source software in 2009 …

In this paper, we examine cryptocurrencies as a potentially disruptive sort of payment
method. Due to its relative importance, we focus in particular on Bitcoin. Through an …

Bitcoin is quickly emerging as a popular digital payment system. However, in spite of its
reliance on pseudonyms, Bitcoin raises a number of privacy concerns due to the fact that all …