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Cryptocurrency
Known as:
Crypto
, Ledger (journal)
, Kryptocurrency
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A cryptocurrency (or crypto currency) is a medium of exchange using cryptography to secure the transactions and to control the creation of additional…
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Highly Cited
2018
Highly Cited
2018
Initial Coin Offerings: Financing Growth with Cryptocurrency Token Sales
Sabrina T. Howell
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M. Niessner
,
D. Yermack
The Review of financial studies
2018
Corpus ID: 169913605
Initial coin offerings (ICOs) have emerged as a new mechanism for entrepreneurial finance, with parallels to initial public…
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Highly Cited
2017
Highly Cited
2017
Algorand: Scaling Byzantine Agreements for Cryptocurrencies
Y. Gilad
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Rotem Hemo
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S. Micali
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Georgios Vlachos
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Nickolai Zeldovich
IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive
2017
Corpus ID: 11523662
Algorand is a new cryptocurrency that confirms transactions with latency on the order of a minute while scaling to many users…
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Review
2017
Review
2017
Global Cryptocurrency Benchmarking Study
Michel Rauchs
,
Garrick Hileman
2017
Corpus ID: 169514233
This is the first study to systematically investigate key cryptocurrency industry sectors by collecting empirical, non-public…
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Review
2017
Review
2017
An Overview of Blockchain Technology: Architecture, Consensus, and Future Trends
Zibin Zheng
,
Shaoan Xie
,
Hongning Dai
,
Xiangping Chen
,
Huaimin Wang
BigData Congress [Services Society]
2017
Corpus ID: 29591273
Blockchain, the foundation of Bitcoin, has received extensive attentions recently. Blockchain serves as an immutable ledger which…
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Highly Cited
2016
Highly Cited
2016
Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies - A Comprehensive Introduction
Arvind Narayanan
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Joseph Bonneau
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E. Felten
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Andrew K. Miller
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Steven Goldfeder
2016
Corpus ID: 38818448
Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies provides a comprehensive introduction to the revolutionary yet often misunderstood new…
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Highly Cited
2016
Highly Cited
2016
SPECTRE: A Fast and Scalable Cryptocurrency Protocol
Yonatan Sompolinsky
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Yoad Lewenberg
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Aviv Zohar
IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive
2016
Corpus ID: 20050445
A growing body of research on Bitcoin and other permissionless cryptocurrencies that utilize Nakamoto’s blockchain has shown that…
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Review
2015
Review
2015
SoK: Research Perspectives and Challenges for Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies
Joseph Bonneau
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Andrew K. Miller
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Jeremy Clark
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Arvind Narayanan
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Joshua A. Kroll
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E. Felten
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
2015
Corpus ID: 549362
Bit coin has emerged as the most successful cryptographic currency in history. Within two years of its quiet launch in 2009, Bit…
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Highly Cited
2015
Highly Cited
2015
A NEXT GENERATION SMART CONTRACT & DECENTRALIZED APPLICATION PLATFORM
Vitalik Buterin
2015
Corpus ID: 19568665
When Satoshi Nakamoto first set the Bitcoin blockchain into motion in January 2009, he was simultaneously introducing two radical…
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Highly Cited
2014
Highly Cited
2014
Cryptocurrencies Without Proof of Work
Iddo Bentov
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Ariel Gabizon
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Alex Mizrahi
Financial Cryptography Workshops
2014
Corpus ID: 1813117
We study decentralized cryptocurrency protocols in which the participants do not deplete physical scarce resources. Such…
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Highly Cited
2012
Highly Cited
2012
PPCoin: Peer-to-Peer Crypto-Currency with Proof-of-Stake
S. King
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Scott Nadal
2012
Corpus ID: 42319203
A peer-to-peer crypto-currency design derived from Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin. Proof-of-stake replaces proof-of-work to provide…
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