Research
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This is the approved revision of this page, as well as being the most recent.
Publications including research and analysis of Bitcoin or related areas.
The list below is now just a subset of a comprehensive list compiled by Brett Scott.
| Title | Author | Type | Date | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cyberlaundering: Anonymous Digital Cash and Money Laundering | R. Mark Bortner | Research paper | 1996 | Download | |
| Triple Entry Accounting | Ian Grigg | Research paper | 2005-12-25 | Download | |
| Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System | Satoshi Nakamoto | Research paper | 2008-10-31 | Download | |
| An Analysis of Anonymity in the Bitcoin System | Fergal Reid, Martin Harrigan | Research paper | 2011-07-22 | Download, discussion | |
| Shadowy Figures: Tracking Illicit Financial Transactions in the Murky World of Digital Currencies, Peer–to–Peer Networks, and Mobile Device Payments | John Villasenor, Cody Monk, Christopher Bronk | Research paper | 2011-08-29 | Download | |
| Bitcoin: An Innovative Alternative Digital Currency | Reuben Grinberg | Research paper | 2011-12-09 | Download, discussion | |
| Bitcoin NFC | David Allen Bronleewe | Master's report | 2011-08 | Download, source code | |
| Optimal pool abuse strategy | Raulo | Research paper | 2011-02-04 | Download, discussion | |
| Abusing Bitcoin cooperative mining pools: strategies for egoistical but honest miners | Nakamoto Ryo | Research paper | 2011 | Download, discussion | |
| Analysis of Bitcoin Pooled Mining Reward Systems | Meni Rosenfeld | Research paper | 2011-11-07 | Download, discussion | |
| Bitcoin Exchange system | Tomáš Jiříček | Research paper | 2012 | Download | |
| On Bitcoin and Red Balloons | Moshe Babaioff, Shahar Dobzinski, Sigal Oren, Aviv Zohar | Publication article | 2012 | Download | |
| 2011 Observations on the Digital Currency Industry | Mark Herpel | Publication article | 2011 | Download | |
| MAVE, New Lightweight Digital Signature Protocols for Massive Verifications | Sergio Demian Lerner | Research paper (preliminary) | 2012 | Download | |
| MAVEPAY, a New Lightweight Payment Scheme for Peer to Peer Currency Networks | Sergio Demian Lerner | Research paper (preliminary) | 2012 | Download | |
| Bitcoin: Eine erste Einordnung (an initial classification) | Christoph Sorge, Artus Krohn-Grimberghe | Research paper | 2012 | Download, discussion | |
| Bitcoin - an introduction to the workings and a preliminary analysis and understanding of potential legal issues | Jean-Daniel Schmid, Alexander Schmid | Article | 2012 | Download | |
| Secure multiparty Bitcoin anonymization | Edward Z. Yang | Article | 2012 | Download, discussion | |
| Bitcoin & Gresham's Law - the economic inevitability of Collapse | Philipp Güring, Ian Grigg | Article | 2011 | Download | |
| Today Techies, Tomorrow the World? Bitcoin. | Reuben Grinberg | Article | 2012 | Download | |
| Traveling the Silk Road: A measurement analysis of a large anonymous online marketplace | Nicolas Christin | Research paper | 2012 | Download | |
| CommitCoin: Carbon Dating Commitments with Bitcoin | Jeremy Clark and Aleksander Essex | Research paper | 2012 | Download extended abstract<br />Download technical report | |
| Quantitative Analysis of the Full Bitcoin Transaction Graph | Dorit Ron and Adi Shamir | Research paper | 2012 | Download | |
| Bitcoin Security | Robert Pallas | Master's thesis | 2012 | Download | |
| Design and security analysis of Bitcoin infrastructure using application deployed on Google Apps Engine | Piotr "ThePiachu" Piasecki | Master's thesis | 2012 | Download, discussion | |
| The Production of Freedom: Value Production in the US- dominated Financial System, and Possible Alternatives | Jeremy Kirshbaum | Master's thesis (preliminary) | 2012 | Download, discussion | |
| COIN: a distributed accounting system for peer to peer networks | Fabio Varesano | Bachelor's thesis | 2012 | Download | |
| BITCOIN CLIENTS | Rostislav Skudnov | Bachelor's thesis | 2012 | Download | |
| Bitter to Better—How to Make Bitcoin a Better Currency | Simon Barber, Xavier Boyen, Elaine Shi, Ersin Uzun | Research paper | 2012 | Download | |
| NooShare: A decentralized ledger of shared computational resources | Alex Coventry | Research paper | 2012 | Download | |
| Bits and Bets. Information, Price Volatility, and Demand for Bitcoin | Martis Buchholz, Jess Delaney, Joseph Warren | Final project | 2012 | Download, discussion, discussion | |
| Two Bitcoins at the Price of One? Double Spending attacks on Fast Payments in Bitcoin | Ghassan O. Karame, Elli Androulaki, Srdjan Cap-kun | Research paper | 2012 | Download | |
| Nerdy Money: Bitcoin, the Private Digital Currency, and the Case Against Its Regulation | Nikolei M. Kaplanov | Research paper | 2012 | Abstract | |
| Analysis of hashrate-based double-spending | Meni Rosenfeld | Research paper | 2012 | Download | |
| Homomorphic Payment Addresses and the Pay-to-Contract Protocol | Ilja Gerhardt, Timo Hanke | Research Paper | 2012 | Download (via web viewer) | |
| Quasi-Commodity Money (February 6, 2012). "This paper considers reform possibilities posed by a type of base money that has heretofore been overlooked in the literature on monetary economics." | George Selgin | Working Papers Series | 2012 | Download | |
| Virtual currency schemes - "This report is a first attempt to provide the basis for a discussion on virtual currency schemes." | European Central Bank | Paper | 2012 | Download | |
| Evaluating User Privacy in Bitcoin | Elli Androulaki, Ghassan Karame, Marc Roeschlin, Tobias Scherer and Srdjan Capkun | Paper | 2013 | Download (Slides) | |
| Beware the Middleman: Empirical Analysis of Bitcoin-Exchange Risk | Tyler Moore and Nicolas Christin | Short Paper | 2013 | Download (Slides) | |
| Bitcoin, Regulating Fraud In The E-Conomy Of Hacker-Cash | Derek A. Dion | Paper | 2013 | Download | |
| The practical materiality of Bitcoin | Bill Maurera, Taylor C. Nelmsa & Lana Swartz | Paper | 2013 | Download | |
| Regulating Digital Currencies: Bringing Bitcoin within the Reach of the IMF | Nicholas Plassaras | Paper | 2013 | Download | |
| Bitcoin is Memory | William J. Luther, Josiah Olson | Paper | 2013 | Download | |
| The Economics of Bitcoin Mining or, Bitcoin in the Presence of Adversaries | Joshua A. Kroll, Ian C. Davey, and Edward W. Felten | Paper | 2013 | Download | |
| Bitcoin: A Primer for Policymakers | Jerry Brito, Andrea Castillo | Research paper | 2013 | Abstract Download | |
| Whack-a-Mole: Prosecuting Digital Currency Exchanges | Catherine Martin Christopher | Research paper | 2013 | Abstract | |
| Are Cryptocurrencies 'Super' Tax Havens? | Omri Y. Marian | Research paper | 2013 | Abstract | |
| Collective Emergent Institutional Entrepreneurship Through Bitcoin | Robin Teigland, Zeynep Yetis and Tomas Olov Larsson | Research paper | 2013 | Abstract | |
| Anonymity of Bitcoin Transactions | Malte Möser | Research paper | 2013 | Download | |
| On the origins of Bitcoin: Stages of monetary evolution | Konrad S. Graf | Research paper | 2013 | Abstract | |
| Majority is not Enough: Bitcoin Mining is Vulnerable | Ittay Eyal and Emin Gun Sirer | Research paper | 2013 | Abstract | |
| Bitcoin, the end of the Taboo on Money | Denis Roio aka Jaromil | Humanities article | 2013 | Abstract | |
| Secure Multiparty Computations on BitCoin | Marcin Andrychowicz, Stefan Dziembowski, Daniel Malinowski and Łukasz Mazurek University of Warsaw | Research paper | 2013 | Abstract | |
| A Fistful of Bitcoins: Characterizing Payments Among Men with No Names | Sarah Meiklejohn, Marjori Pomarole, Grant Jordan, Kirill Levchenko, Damon McCoy, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Stefan Savage | Research paper | 2013 | ||
| Information Propagation in the Bitcoin Network | Christian Decker (ETH Zurich, Switzerland), Roger Wattenhofer (Microsoft Research) | Research paper | 2013 | ||
| Have a Snack, Pay with Bitcoins | Tobias Bamert, Christian Decker, Lennart Elsen, Roger Wattenhofer, Samuel Welten | Research paper | 2013 | ||
| The Economics of Private Digital Currency | Gerald P Dwyer | Research paper | 2014 | Abstract | |
| The Origin, Classification and Utility of Bitcoin | Peter Šurda | Research Paper | 2014 | Abstract | |
| Deanonymisation of clients in Bitcoin P2P network | Alex Biryukov, Dmitry Khovratovich and Ivan Pustogarov | Research Paper | 2014 | Abstract Download | |
| Bitcoin Financial Regulation: Securities, Derivatives, Prediction Markets, & Gambling | Jerry Brito, Houman B. Shadab, Andrea Castillo | Research Paper | 2014 | Abstract Download | |
| What are the main drivers of the Bitcoin price? | Ladislav Kristoufek | Research Paper | 2014 | Download | |
| The Economics of Bitcoin | Andre Herman | Bachelor's thesis | 2014 | Download | |
| Near Zero Bitcoin Transaction Fees Cannot Last Forever | Kerem Kaşkaloğlu | Research Paper | 2014 | Abstract Download | |
| Is Bitcoin Money? | Ísak Andri Ólafsson | Thesis Paper | 2014 | Abstract Download | |
| The (A)Political Economy of Bitcoin | Vasilis Kostakis and Chris Giotitsas | Essay | 2014 | HTML Download | |
| When your sensor earns money: exchanging data for cash with Bitcoin | Dominic Wörner and Thomas von Bomhard | Research | 2014 | Abstract Download | |
| Bitcoin Transaction Malleability and MtGox | Christian Decker, Roger Wattenhofer | Research | 2014 | Download | |
| BlueWallet: The Secure Bitcoin Wallet | Tobias Bamert, Christian Decker, Roger Wattenhofer and Samuel Welten | Research | 2014 | Download | |
| Bitcoin over Tor isn’t a good idea | Alex Biryukov and Ivan Pustogarov | Research | 2014 | Download | |
| Sidechained Bitcoin Substitutes, A Monetary Commentary | Konrad S. Graf | Essay | 2014 | Download | |
| Taxation of virtual currency | Aleksandra Bal | PhD thesis | 2014 | Abstract Download | |
| A First Look at the Usability of Bitcoin Key Management | Shayan Eskandari, David Barrera, Elizabeth Stobert, and Jeremy Clark | Research Paper | 2015 | Download | |
| Privacy in Bitcoin through decentralized mixers | Olivier Coutu | Master's thesis | 2015 | Abstract Download | |
| Value Creation in Cryptocurrency Networks: Towards A Taxonomy of Digital Business Models for Bitcoin Companies | Erol Kazan, Chee-Wee Tan, Eric T.K. Lim | Research Paper | 2015 | Abstract Download | |
| Authenticated Key Exchange over Bitcoin | Patrick McCorry, Siamak F. Shahandashti, Dylan Clarke, Feng Hao | Research Paper | 2015 | Download | |
| Bitcoin and Beyond: A Technical Survey on Decentralized Digital Currencies | Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann | Research Paper | 2015 | Download | |
| Bitcoin Duplex Micropayment Channels | Christian Decker and Roger Wattenhofer | Research Paper | 2015 | Download | |
| The Bitcoin Lightning Network: Scalable Off-Chain Instant Payments | Joseph Poon and Thaddeus Dryja | Research Paper | 2015 | Download | |
| Bitcoin and the Uniform Commercial Code | Jeanne L. Schroeder | Research Paper | 2015 | Abstract Download | |
| Economics beyond Financial Intermediation | Saifedean Ammous | Research Paper | 2015 | Download | |
| Bitcoin and the Future of Digital Payments | William J. Luther | Research Paper | 2015 | Abstract Download | |
| Profitability from Mining Bitcoins: Should You Still Enter the Bitcoin Mining Competition? Long-Term Simulation Analysis of the Profitability for a Single Miner | Kärt Viilup | Master's thesis | 2015 | Download | |
| Secure Bitcoin Wallet | Sevil Guler | Master's thesis | 2015 | Download | |
| Development of Universal Cryptocurrency Wallet Services: A Case Study of Bitplexus | Priidu Neemre | Master's thesis | 2016 | Download |
See Also on BitcoinWiki[edit]
- Encryptopedia - Scientific research and white papers on bitcoin, blockchain technology, cryptography, algorithms and cryptocurrencies
- Peer-to-Peer Review: The State of Academic Bitcoin Research 2014 by Brett Scott (@Suitpossum) (Full List)
- OpenCryptocurrencyReview - A repository of Bitcoin and related research
- Jeremy Clark's Bitcoin Bibliography
- Economic
- Technical
- Press
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