Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency and a peer-to-peer payment system, where transactions directly take place between pseudo-anonymous users, without any centralised authority. Bitcoin pseudo-anonymity can be -also- a cover for financing crime or for money laundering, as the existence of some illegal markets on the Dark Web proves. Since the block-chain (i.e., the public ledger where transactions are registered) is an example of Big Data, a straightforward visualisation is not much informative. For this reason, we employ techniques from Visual Analytics to filter out undesired information in order to obtain a tool to visually analyse the transactions and help its analysis.
Go with the -bitcoin- flow, with visual analytics
Bistarelli, Stefano;Santini, Francesco
2017
Abstract
Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency and a peer-to-peer payment system, where transactions directly take place between pseudo-anonymous users, without any centralised authority. Bitcoin pseudo-anonymity can be -also- a cover for financing crime or for money laundering, as the existence of some illegal markets on the Dark Web proves. Since the block-chain (i.e., the public ledger where transactions are registered) is an example of Big Data, a straightforward visualisation is not much informative. For this reason, we employ techniques from Visual Analytics to filter out undesired information in order to obtain a tool to visually analyse the transactions and help its analysis.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
