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 | Download wiki page |
| Triple Entry Accounting | Ian Grigg | Research paper | 2005 | Download |
| Cyberlaundering: Anonymous Digital Cash and Money Laundering | R. Mark Bortner | Research paper | 1996 | 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 |
| Bitcoin NFC | David Allen Bronleewe | Master's report | 2011 | Download, source code |
| Optimal pool abuse strategy | Raulo | Research paper | 2011 | 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 | 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 | 2012 (preliminary) | Download |
| MAVEPAY, a New Lightweight Payment Scheme for Peer to Peer Currency Networks | Sergio Demian Lerner | Research paper | 2012 (preliminary) | 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 Download technical report |
| Quantitative Analysis of the Full Bitcoin Transaction Graph | Dorit Ron and Adi Shamir | Research paper | 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 | 2012 (preliminary) | 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 | 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 |