EGRET : extortion graph exploration techniques in the Bitcoin network

• Main Authors: Phetsouvanh, Silivanxay, Oggier, Frédérique, Datta, Anwitaman
• Other Authors: School of Computer Science and Engineering
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Bitcoin Forensics; Graph Analysis; DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/88894; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/49145; https://doi.org/10.21979/N9/FHBR2E
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The Bitcoin network is a complex network that records anonymous financial transactions while encapsulating the relationships among its pseudonymous users. This paper proposes graph mining techniques to explore the relationships among wallet addresses (pseudonyms for Bitcoin users) suspected to be in...