Research
Publications including research and analysis of Bitcoin or related areas.
| Title | Author | Type | Year | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System | Satoshi Nakamoto | Research paper | 2009 | http://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf |
| 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 |
| 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 | Download |
| An Analysis of Anonymity in the Bitcoin System | Fergal Reid, Martin Harrigan | Research paper | 2011 | Download, discussion |
| Bitcoin: An Innovative Alternative Digital Currency | Reuben Grinberg | Research paper | 2011 | Download, discussion |
| Design and security analysis of Bitcoin infrastructure using application deployed on Google Apps Engine. | Piotr "ThePiachu" Piasecki | Master's thesis | 2012 | https://dl.dropbox.com/u/3658181/PiotrPiasecki-BitcoinMasterThesis.pdf https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=88149.0 |
| The Production of Freedom: Value Production in the US- dominated Financial System, and Possible Alternatives | Jeremy Kirshbaum | Master's thesis | 2012 (preliminary) | https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JIyMWIibqH8x20vGBTMBZ2yqM7Xbp54UpWBh0o2H7WI/edit?pli=1 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=87404.0 |
| COIN: a distributed accounting system for peer to peer networks | Fabio Varesano | Bachelor's thesis | 2012 | http://www.varesano.net/contents/projects/coin%20distributed%20accounting%20system%20peer%20peer%20networks |
| BITCOIN CLIENTS | Rostislav Skudnov | Bachelor's thesis | 2012 | http://publications.theseus.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/47166/Skudnov_Rostislav.pdf?sequence=1 |
| Bitter to Better—How to Make Bitcoin a Better Currency | Simon Barber, Xavier Boyen, Elaine Shi, Ersin Uzun | Research paper | 2012 | http://crypto.stanford.edu/~xb/fc12/bitcoin.pdf |
| NooShare: A decentralized ledger of shared computational resources | Alex Coventry | Research paper | 2012 | http://mit.edu/alex_c/www/nooshare.pdf |
| Bitcoin NFC | David Allen Bronleewe | Master's report | 2011 | Download, source |
| Bits and Bets. Information, Price Volatility, and Demand for Bitcoin | Martis Buchholz, Jess Delaney, Joseph Warren | Final project | 2012 | http://academic.reed.edu/economics/parker/s12/312/finalproj/Bitcoin.pdf |
| Optimal pool abuse strategy | Raulo | Research paper | 2011 | Download, discussion |
| Triple Entry Accounting | Ian Grigg | Research paper | 2005 | Download |
| Cyberlaundering: Anonymous Digital Cash and Money Laundering | R. Mark Bortner | Research paper | 1996 | Download |
| 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 | Download, discussion |
| Bitcoin Exchange system | Tomáš Jiříček | Research paper | 2012 | https://dip.felk.cvut.cz/browse/pdfcache/jiricto2_2012bach.pdf |
| On Bitcoin and Red Balloons | Moshe Babaioff, Shahar Dobzinski, Sigal Oren, Aviv Zohar | Publication article | 2012 | http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/156072/bitcoin.pdf |
| 2011 Observations on the Digital Currency Industry | Mark Herpel | Publication article | 2011 | Download |
| WAVE, New Lightweight Digital Signature Protocols for Massive Verifications | Sergio Demian Lerner | Research paper | 2012 (preliminary) | http://bitslog.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/mave1.pdf |
| WAVEPAY, a New Lightweight Payment Scheme for Peer to Peer Currency Networks | Sergio Demian Lerner | Research paper | 2012 (preliminary) | http://bitslog.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/mavepay1.pdf |
| Bitcoin: Eine erste Einordnung (an initial classification) | Christoph Sorge, Artus Krohn-Grimberghe | Research paper | 2012 | http://www.springerlink.com/content/cw1v762571tr4462/ 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 |