Besides attracting a billion dollar economy, Bitcoin revolutionized the field of digital
currencies and influenced many adjacent areas. This also induced significant scientific …

Bitcoin is a popular cryptocurrency that records all transactions in a distributed append-only
public ledger called blockchain. The security of Bitcoin heavily relies on the incentive …

Bitcoin is an online communication protocol that facilitates the use of a virtual currency,
including electronic payments. Bitcoin's rules were designed by engineers with no apparent …

Bit coin has emerged as the most successful cryptographic currency in history. Within two
years of its quiet launch in 2009, Bit coin grew to comprise billions of dollars of economic …

In this work, we provide the first comprehensive description of the Initial Coin Offering (ICO)
phenomenon, which by the end of 2017 allowed startups around the world to raise more …

We present eclipse attacks on bitcoin's peer-to-peer network. Our attack allows an adversary
controlling a sufficient number of IP addresses to monopolize all connections to and from a …

With the help of the Internet of Things (IoT), an evolving technology, issues may be solved in
the fields of research and engineering without the involvement of a human workforce. It …

In this paper, we systematically explore the attack surface of the Blockchain technology, with
an emphasis on public Blockchains. Towards this goal, we attribute attack viability in the …

As an innovated and revolutionized technology, blockchain has been applied in many fields,
such as cryptocurrency, food traceability, identity management, or even market prediction …

In recent years, crypto-currencies (a form of decentralised digital currencies) have been
quite popular as an alternative form of payments. They are underpinned by a breakthrough …