Background Cryptocurrency fraud has become a growing global concern, with various
governments reporting an increase in the frequency of and losses from cryptocurrency …

Since the inception of Bitcoin in 2009, the market of cryptocurrencies has grown beyond the
initial expectations, as witnessed by the thousands of tokenised assets available on the …

Blockchain provides a decentralized environment for applications and information systems
in various fields. It is an innovative revolution for the traditional Internet. However, without …

The Internet's combination of low communication cost, global reach, and functional
anonymity has allowed fraudulent scam volumes to reach new heights. Designing effective …

This paper investigates the evolution of investment scam lures and scam-related keywords
in the cryptocurrency online forum Bitcointalk over a period of 12 years. Our findings show a …

A Blockchain Name System (BNS) simplifies the process of sending cryptocurrencies by
replacing complex cryptographic recipient addresses with human-readable names, making …

This work compares machine learning methods using supervised, semi-supervised and
unsupervised learning, to classify advertisements for cryptocurrency related investment …

The Bitcoin blockchain was the first publicly verifiable, and distributed ledger, where it is
possible for everyone to download and check the full history of all data records from the …