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Networks often possess mesoscale structures, and studying them can yield insights into both structure and function. It is most common to study community structure, but numerous other types of mesoscale structures also exist. In this paper,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-03-21 Sang Hoon Lee , Mihai Cucuringu , Mason A. Porter

We assess the applicability of rough volatility models to Bitcoin realized volatility using the normalised p-variation framework of Cont and Das (2024). Applying this model-free estimator to high-frequency Bitcoin data from 2017 to 2024…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-09-30 Milan Pontiggia

Prediction of stock prices has been a crucial and challenging task, especially in the case of highly volatile digital currencies such as Bitcoin. This research examineS the potential of using neural network models, namely LSTMs and GRUs, to…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-05-15 Ali Mohammadjafari

Bitcoin is a decentralised digital currency that relies on cryptography rather than trusted third parties such as central banks for its security. Underpinning the operation of the currency is a peer-to-peer (P2P) network that facilitates…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-05-29 James Tapsell , Raja Naeem Akram , Konstantinos Markantonakis

A reputation of high volatility accompanies the emergence of Bitcoin as a financial asset. This paper intends to nuance this reputation and clarify our understanding of Bitcoin's volatility. Using daily, weekly, and monthly closing prices…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-03-02 Nassim Dehouche

Bitcoin derives a verifiable temporal order from probabilistic block discovery and cumulative proof-of-work rather than from a trusted global clock. We show that block arrivals exhibit stable exponential behavior across difficulty epochs,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Bin Chen , Pan Feng

Bitcoin is the most successful cryptocurrency so far. This is mainly due to its novel consensus algorithm, which is based on proof-of-work combined with a cryptographically-protected data structure and a rewarding scheme that incentivizes…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Pawel Szalachowski , Daniel Reijsbergen , Ivan Homoliak , Siwei Sun

Since the introduction of Bitcoin in 2009, the dramatic and unsteady evolution of the cryptocurrency market has also been driven by large investments by traditional and cryptocurrency-focused hedge funds. Notwithstanding their critical…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2023-01-11 Luca Mungo , Silvia Bartolucci , Laura Alessandretti

The problem of anomaly detection has been studied for a long time, and many Network Analysis techniques have been proposed as solutions. Although some results appear to be quite promising, no method is clearly to be superior to the rest. In…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Thai Pham , Steven Lee

One of the defining features of Bitcoin and the thousands of cryptocurrencies that have been derived from it is a globally visible transaction ledger. While Bitcoin uses pseudonyms as a way to hide the identity of its participants, a long…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-30 George Kappos , Haaroon Yousaf , Rainer Stütz , Sofia Rollet , Bernhard Haslhofer , Sarah Meiklejohn

The Bitcoin protocol is a significant milestone in the history of money. However, its adoption is currently constrained by the transaction limits of the system. As the chief problem of blockchain technology, the scaling issue has attracted…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Kazım Rıfat Özyılmaz , Harsh Patel , Ankit Malik

Intermediate-scale (or `meso-scale') structures in networks have received considerable attention, as the algorithmic detection of such structures makes it possible to discover network features that are not apparent either at the local scale…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-04-04 M. Puck Rombach , Mason A. Porter , James H. Fowler , Peter J. Mucha

Bitcoin-otc is a peer to peer (over-the-counter) marketplace for trading with bit- coin crypto-currency. To mitigate the risks of the p2p unsupervised exchanges, the establishment of a reliable reputation systems is needed: for this reason,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Ilaria Bertazzi , Sylvie Huet , Guillaume Deffuant , Floriana Gargiulo

The blockchain initially gained traction in 2008 as the technology underlying bitcoin, but now has been employed in a diverse range of applications and created a global market worth over $150B as of 2017. What distinguishes blockchains from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Shehar Bano , Alberto Sonnino , Mustafa Al-Bassam , Sarah Azouvi , Patrick McCorry , Sarah Meiklejohn , George Danezis

This study investigates the volatility of daily Bitcoin returns and multifractal properties of the Bitcoin market by employing the rolling window method and examines relationships between the volatility asymmetry and market efficiency.…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-02-18 Tetsuya Takaishi

The properties of tokens within the Ethereum blockchain, such as their current prices, trade volumes, and potential future values, have been the subjects of numerous studies. Employing social networks and graphs, as powerful tools for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Aryan Soltani Mohammadi , Moein Karami , Amir Pasha Motamed , Behnam Bahrak

Over the past decade, the Bitcoin P2P network protocol has become a reference model for all modern cryptocurrencies. While nodes in this network are known, the connections among them are kept hidden, as it is commonly believed that this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Federico Franzoni , Xavier Salleras , Vanesa Daza

Bitcoin transactions include unspent transaction outputs (UTXOs) as their inputs and generate one or more newly owned UTXOs at specified addresses. Each UTXO can only be used as an input in a transaction once, and using it in two or more…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Changhoon Kang , Jongsoo Woo , James Won-Ki Hong

Cross-correlations in fluctuations of the daily exchange rates within the basket of the 100 highest-capitalization cryptocurrencies over the period October 1, 2015, through March 31, 2019, are studied. The corresponding dynamics…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2020-02-12 Stanisław Drożdż , Ludovico Minati , Paweł Oświęcimka , Marek Stanuszek , Marcin Wątorek

We consider a banking network represented by a system of stochastic differential equations coupled by their drift. We assume a core-periphery structure, and that the banks in the core hold a bubbly asset. The banks in the periphery have not…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2018-06-06 Francesca Biagini , Andrea Mazzon , Thilo Meyer-Brandis