Bitcoin Bibliography

The academic community was relatively slow to being research on Bitcoin. Here are the first academic papers written between 2008 and 2013 (5 years) on Bitcoin.

1. Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
   S. Nakamoto
   Tech Report, 2008

2. An Analysis of Anonymity in the Bitcoin System
   F. Reid and M. Harrigan
   PASSAT 2011

3. On Bitcoin and Red Balloons
   M. Babaioff, S. Dobzinski, S. Oren, and A. Zohar
   SIGecon Exchanges, 10(3), 2011 (and ACM EC 2012)

4. CommitCoin: Carbon Dating Commitments with Bitcoin
   J. Clark and A. Essex
   Financial Cryptography 2012

5. Bitter to Better — How to Make Bitcoin a Better Currency
   S. Barber, X. Boyen, E. Shi, and E. Uzun
   Financial Cryptography 2012

6. Can We Afford Integrity by Proof-of-Work? Scenarios Inspired by the Bitcoin Currency
   J. Becker, D. Breuker, T. Heide, J. Holler, H. P. Rauer, and R. Bohme
   WEIS 2012

7. Two Bitcoins at the Price of One? Double-Spending Attacks on Fast Payments in Bitcoin
   G. O. Karame, E. Androulaki, and S. Capkun
   CCS 2012

8. Quantitative Analysis of the Full Bitcoin Transaction Graph
   D. Ron and A. Shamir
   Financial Cryptography 2013

9. Evaluating User Privacy in Bitcoin
   E. Androulaki, G. Karame, M. Roeschlin, T. Scherer and S. Capkun
   Financial Cryptography 2013

10. Beware the Middleman: Empirical Analysis of Bitcoin-Exchange Risk
    T. Moore and N. Christin
    Financial Cryptography 2013

11. Zerocoin: Anonymous Distributed e-Cash from Bitcoin
    I. Miers, C. Garman, M. Green, and A. Rubin
    IEEE SSP (Oakland) 2013

12. Traveling the Silk Road: A measurement analysis of a large anonymous online marketplace
    N. Christin
    WWW 2013

13. Pinocchio Coin: Building Zerocoin from a Succinct Pairing-based Proof System
    G. Danezis, C. Fournet, M. Kohlweiss, and B. Parno
    PETShop 2013

14. The Economics of Bitcoin Mining, or Bitcoin in the Presence of Adversaries
    J. Kroll, I. Davey, and E. Felten
    WEIS 2013

15. Information Propagation in the Bitcoin Network
    C. Decker and R. Wattenhofer
    P2P 2013

16. Have a Snack, Pay with Bitcoins
    T. Bamert, C. Decker, L. Elsen, R. Wattenhofer and S. Welten
    P2P 2013

17. A Fistful of Bitcoins: Characterizing Payments Among Men with No Names
    S. Meiklejohn, M. Pomarole, G. Jordan, K. Levchenko, D. McCoy, G.M. Voelker, and S. Savage
    IMC 2013

2014 & 2015

• On the Privacy Provisions of Bloom Filters in Lightweight Bitcoin Clients
  A. Gervais, G.O. Karame, D. Gruber and S. Capkun
  ACSAC 2014

• Sybil-Resistant Mixing for Bitcoin
  G. Bissias, A.P. Ozisik, B.N. Levine, and M. Liberatore
  WPES 2014

• How to Use Bitcoin to Incentivize Correct Computations
  R. Kumaresan and I. Bentov
  CCS 2014

• Deanonymisation of clients in Bitcoin P2P network
  A. Biryukov, D. Khovratovich and I. Pustogarov
  CCS 2014

• VerSum: Verifiable Computations over Large Public Logs
  J. van del Hooff, M. F. Kaashoek and N. Zeldovich
  CCS 2014

• Modeling Bitcoin Contracts by Timed Automata
  M. Andrychowicz, S. Dziembowski, D. Malinowski and L. Mazurek
  FORMATS 2014

• CoinShuffle: Practical Decentralized Coin Mixing for Bitcoin
  T. Ruffing, P. Moreno-Sanchez, and A. Kate
  ESORICS 2014

• Bitcoin Transaction Malleability and MtGox
  C. Decker, and R. Wattenhofer
  ESORICS 2014

• BlueWallet: The Secure Bitcoin Wallet
  T. Bamert, C. Decker, R. Wattenhofer and S. Welten
  STM 2014

• How to Use Bitcoin to Design Fair Protocols
  I. Bentov and R. Kumaresan
  CRYPTO 2014

• Better in Practice than in Theory: Lessons from the Rise of Bitcoin
  J. Bonneau and A. Narayanan
  HotSec 2014 (Speakers)

• From Onions to Shallots: Rewarding Tor Relays with TEARS
  R. Jansen, A. Miller, P. Syverson and B. Ford
  HotPETS 2014

• A TorPath to TorCoin: Proof-of-Bandwidth Altcoins for Compensating Relays
  M. Ghosh, M. Richardson, B. Ford and R. Jansen
  HotPETS 2014

• On Decentralizing Prediction Markets and Order Books
  J. Clark, J. Bonneau, E.W. Felten, J.A. Kroll, A. Miller, and A. Narayanan
  WEIS 2014

• Competition in the Crypto-Currency Market
  N. Gandal and H. Halaburda
  WEIS 2014

• Is Bitcoin a Decentralized Currency?
  A. Gervais, G.O. Karame, S. Capkun and V. Capkun
  IEEE S&P Magazine 12(3) 2014

• Anonymous Byzantine Consensus from Moderately-Hard Puzzles: A Model for Bitcoin
  A. Miller and J.J. LaViola
  Tech Report 2014

• Secure Multiparty Computations on Bitcoin
  M. Andrychowicz, S. Dziembowski, D. Malinowski, and L. Mazurek
  IEEE SSP (Oakland) 2014

• Zerocash: Decentralized Anonymous Payments from Bitcoin
  E. Ben-Sasson, A. Chiesa, C. Garman, M. Green, I. Miers, E. Tromer, and M. Virza
  IEEE SSP (Oakland) 2014

• PermaCoin: Repurposing Bitcoin Work for Data Preservation
  A. Miller, A. Juels, E. Shi, B. Parno, and J. Katz
  IEEE SSP (Oakland) 2014

• Botcoin: Monetizing Stolen Cycles
  D.Y. Huang, H. Dharmdasani, S. Meiklejohn, V. Dave, C. Grier, D. McCoy, S. Savage, N. Weaver, A.C. Snoeren and K. Levchenko
  NDSS 2014

• Decentralized Anonymous Credentials
  C. Garman, M. Green, and I. Miers
  NDSS 2014

• Majority is not Enough: Bitcoin Mining is Vulnerable
  I. Eyal and E.G. Sirer
  Financial Cryptography 2014

• BitIodine: Extracting Intelligence from the Bitcoin Network
  M. Spagnuolo, F. Maggi and S. Zanero
  Financial Cryptography 2014

• Mixcoin: Anonymity for Bitcoin with accountable mixes
  J. Bonneau, A. Narayanan, A. Miller, J. Clark, J.A. Kroll and E.W. Felten
  Financial Cryptography 2014

• An Analysis of Anonymity in Bitcoin Using P2P Network Traffic
  P. Koshy, D. Koshy and P. McDaniel
  Financial Cryptography 2014

• Elliptic Curve Cryptography in Practice
  J. Bos, J.A. Halderman, N. Heninger, J. Moore, M. Naehrig and E. Wustrow
  Financial Cryptography 2014

• Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Research Conference
  Entire Program
  CITP, Princeton, 2014

• BITCOIN 2014
  (Entire Program)
  

• Misbehavior in Bitcoin: A Study of Double-Spending and Accountability
  G. O. Karame, E. Androulaki, M. Roeschlin, A. Gervais, S. Capkun
  TISSEC, 18(1), 2015

• Bitcoin: Under the Hood
  A. Zohar
  CACM, 58(9), 2015

• Provisions: Privacy-preserving proofs of solvency for Bitcoin exchanges
  G. Dagher, B. Bünz, J. Bonneau, J. Clark, D. Boneh
  CCS 2015

• Liar, Liar, Coins on Fire! — Penalizing Equivocation By Loss of Bitcoins
  T. Ruffing, A. Kate, D. Schroeder
  CCS 2015

• How to Use Bitcoin to Play Decentralized Poker
  R. Kumaresan, T. Moran, I. Bentov
  CCS 2015

• Micropayments for Decentralized Currencies
  R. Pass, a. shelat
  CCS 2015

• Traitor Deterring Schemes: Using Bitcoin as Collateral for Digital Content
  A. Kiayias, Q. Tang
  CCS 2015

• Nonoutsourceable Scratch-Off Puzzles to Discourage Bitcoin Mining Coalitions
  A. Miller, A. Kosba, E. Shi, J. Katz
  CCS 2015

• Tampering with the Delivery of Blocks and Transactions in Bitcoin
  A. Gervais, H. Ritzdorf, G. O. Karame, S. Capkun
  CCS 2015

• Making Bitcoin Exchanges Transparent
  C. Decker, J. Guthrie, J. Seidel and R. Wattenhofer
  ESORICS 2015

• PoW-Based Distributed Cryptography with no Trusted Setup
  M. Andrychowicz, S. Dziembowski
  CRYPTO 2015

• Measuring the Longitudinal Evolution of the Online Anonymous Marketplace Ecosystem
  K. Soska, N. Christin
  USENIX Security 2015

• Eclipse Attacks on Bitcoin's Peer-to-Peer Network
  E. Heilman, A. Kendler, A. Zohar, S. Goldberg
  USENIX Security 2015

• Shadow-Bitcoin: Scalable Simulation via Direct Execution of Multi-threaded Applications
  A. Miller, R. Jansen
  CSET 2015

• An empirical study of Namecoin and lessons for decentralized namespace design
  H. Kalodner, M. Carlsten, P. Ellenbogen, J. Bonneau, and A. Narayanan
  WEIS 2015

• Bitcoin and Second-generation Cryptocurrencies
  J. Bonneau, A. Miller, J. Clark, A. Narayanan, J. Kroll, and E.W. Felten
  IEEE SP (Oakland) 2015

• Bitcoin over Tor isn't a Good Idea
  A. Biryukov and I. Pustogarov
  IEEE SP (Oakland) 2015

• The Miner's Dilemma
  I. Eyal
  IEEE SP (Oakland) 2015

• The Bitcoin Backbone Protocol: Analysis and Applications
  J. Garay, A. Kiayias and N. Leonardos
  EUROCRYPT 2015

• A First Look at the Usability of Bitcoin Key Management
  S. Eskandari, D, Barrera, E. Stobert, and J. Clark
  USEC 2015

• There's No Free Lunch, Even Using Bitcoin: Tracking the Popularity and Profits of Virtual Currency Scams
  M. Vasek and T. Moore
  Financial Cryptography 2015

• Hierarchical deterministic Bitcoin wallets that tolerate key leakage
  G. Gutoski and D. Stebila
  Financial Cryptography 2015

• Secure High-Rate Transaction Processing in Bitcoin
  Y. Sompolinsky and A. Zohar
  Financial Cryptography 2015

• Inclusive Block Chain Protocols
  Y. Lewenberg, Y. Sompolinsky and A. Zohar
  Financial Cryptography 2015

• BITCOIN 2015
  (Entire Program)