An inquiry into money laundering tools in the Bitcoin ecosystem

By Malte Möser, Rainer Böhme, Dominic Breuker. 2013 APWG eCrime Researchers Summit, 2013

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems, Sociology and Political Science

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CoinShuffle: Practical Decentralized Coin Mixing for Bitcoin (2014, background): “While such public mixes are deployed in practice [30] [12] [13] [14], they suffer from two severe drawbacks: First, the mix might just steal the money and never return it to the users.”
Price manipulation in the Bitcoin ecosystem (2018, background): “Numerous researchers have conducted studies in order to document and combat threats such as Ponzi schemes (Vasek and Moore, 2015), money laundering (M¨oser et al., 2013), mining botnets (Huang et al., 2014), and the theft of “brain” wallets (Vasek et al., 2016).”
Where Is Current Research on Blockchain Technology?—A Systematic Review (2016, background): “For the effectiveness of mixing techniques in improving anonymity, Möser et al. [49] present analysis results on some available Bitcoin mixing services.”
Does global economic uncertainty matter for the volatility and hedging effectiveness of Bitcoin? (2019, background): “6 among practitioners of the possibility for Bitcoin to be part of money laundering (Moser et al., 2013) or even Ponzi schemes (Vasek and Moore, 2015).”
The price of anonymity: empirical evidence from a market for Bitcoin anonymization (2017, background): “In comparison, centralized services offering coin anonymization often charge fees between 1% and 3% [33].”
SoK: Research Perspectives and Challenges for Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies (2015, background): “While Mixcoin’s warranties and other features have not been deployed, this is the closest proposal to thirdparty mixes which are most commonly used in practice [88].”
Why do businesses go crypto? An empirical analysis of initial coin offerings (2018, background): “The increasing scarcity of the primary issue of new Bitcoins and the strong demand by wealthy people willing to “hide” cross-border money flows (Moser, Bohme, & Breuker, 2013) sustained Bitcoin’s value on the market and nourished a speculative bubble (Baek & Elbek, 2015; Cheah & Fry, 2015).”
Bitcoin and Beyond: A Technical Survey on Decentralized Digital Currencies (2016, methodology): “[M¨oser et al. 2013] experimentally analyzed three services, namely Bitcoin Fog ( bitcoinfog . com ), BitLaundry ( bitlaundry . com ) and Send Shared by blockchain . info 3 .”
A Review on the Use of Blockchain for the Internet of Things (2018, background): “since all transactions are shared, it is possible for third-parties to analyze such transactions and infer the actual identities of the participants [159], [160].”