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This paper provides an overview of how crypto currency and blockchain engineering interacts with the law enforcement. We point out that a large proportion of crypto users are amateur investors and the dominant and the largest segment in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Nicolas T. Courtois , Kacper T. Gradon , Klaus Schmeh

The epidemiology has recently witnessed great advances based on computational models. Its scope and impact are getting wider thanks to the new data sources feeding analytical frameworks and models. Besides traditional variables considered…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-11-13 David Pastor-Escuredo

We analyse the importance of international relations between countries on the financial stability. The contagion effect in the network is tested by implementing an epidemiological model, comprising a number of European countries and using…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-01-23 Olena Kostylenko , Helena Sofia Rodrigues , Delfim F. M. Torres

Almost a decade on from the launch of Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies continue to generate headlines and intense debate. What started as an underground experiment by a rag tag group of programmers armed with a Libertarian manifesto has now…

General Economics · Economics 2018-11-15 Hina Binte Haq , Syed Taha Ali

The use of physical documents is inconvenient and inefficient in today's world, which motivates us to move towards the use of digital documents. Digital documents can solve many problems of inefficiency of data management but proving their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Chanaka Lakmal , Sachithra Dangalla , Chandu Herath , Chamin Wickramarathna , Gihan Dias , Shantha Fernando

The security of communication in everyday life becomes very important. On the other hand, all existing encryption protocols require from user additional knowledge end resources. In this paper we discuss the problem of public key…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-12 Krzysztof Podlaski , Artur Hłobaż , Piotr Milczarski

Wallets are access points for the digital economys value creation. Wallets for blockchains store the end-users cryptographic keys for administrating their digital assets and enable access to blockchain Web3 systems. Web3 delivers new…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Kim Peiter Jørgensen

The fast-growing, market-driven demand for cryptocurrencies worries central banks, as their monetary policy could be completely undermined. Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) could offer a solution, yet our understanding of their…

General Economics · Economics 2022-11-02 Kilian Wenker

Digital signatures represent a crucial cryptographic asset that must be protected against quantum adversaries. Quantum Digital Signatures (QDS) can offer solutions that are information-theoretically (IT) secure and thus immune to quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-08 Federico Grasselli , Gaetano Russo , Massimiliano Proietti

We present a scalable architecture for electronic retail payments via central bank digital currency and offer a solution to the perceived conflict between robust regulatory oversight and consumer affordances such as privacy and control. Our…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Geoff Goodell , D. R. Toliver , Hazem Danny Nakib

Cryptocurrency is something that we have all heard about recently, most likely preceded by bitcoin, and how much its prices have boomed over the decade. These cryptocurrencies are actually based on blockchain, a secure datatype, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Nayak Bhatia , Sanchit Bansal , Smit Desai

In this article, we would like to review the main technologies that have been proposed so far to fight the spread of the virus. Also, we would like to give an overview of the policy recommendations that some European organisations have put…

Travel has been challenging recently since different nations have implemented varied immigration and travel policies. For the time being, immigration officials want proof of each person's immunity to the virus. A vaccine passport serves as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Ms. Megha Rani R , Roshan R Acharya , Ramkishan , Ranjith K , Rakshith Ay Gowda

The MobilityCoin is a new, all-encompassing currency for the management of the multimodal urban transportation system. MobilityCoins includes and replaces various existing transport policy instruments while also incentivizing a shift to…

The emergence of quantum computing presents profound challenges to existing cryptographic infrastructures, whilst the development of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) has raised concerns regarding privacy preservation and excessive…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Serhan W. Bahar

Automatic authentication of paper money has been targeted. Indian bank notes are taken as reference to show how a system can be developed for discriminating fake notes from genuine ones. Image processing and pattern recognition techniques…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-09 Ankush Roy , Biswajit Halder , Utpal Garain , David S. Doermann

As artificial intelligence rapidly advances, society is increasingly captivated by promises of superhuman machines and seamless digital futures. Yet these visions often obscure mounting social, ethical, and psychological concerns tied to…

Internet users such as individuals and organizations are subject to different types of epidemic risks such as worms, viruses, spams, and botnets. To reduce the probability of risk, an Internet user generally invests in traditional security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-03-09 Ranjan Pal , Leana Golubchik

A group of people wishes to use money to exchange goods efficiently over several time periods. However, there are disadvantages to using any of the goods as money, and in addition fiat money issued in the form of notes or coins will be…

Economics · Quantitative Finance 2023-09-12 J. V. Howard

The paper aims to present a new apparatus for managing of the information security of the digital economy with using of social networks. A general problem for optimization of the information security management for participants in the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-01-12 Anatolii A. Shyian