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DOI: 10.14569/IJACSA.2016.071255
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The Art of Crypto Currencies

Author 1: Sufian Hameed
Author 2: Sameet Farooq

International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), Volume 7 Issue 12, 2016.

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Abstract: Crypto Currencies have recently gained enormous popularity amongst the general public. With each passing day, more and more companies are radically accepting crypto cur-rencies in their payment systems, paving way for an economic revolution. Currently more than 700 crypto-currencies are avail-able at Coindesk alone for trade purposes. As of November 2016, the Crypto currencies hold a total market share of over 14 Billion USD1 [5]. With no centralized institution to monitor the movement of funds, Crypto currencies and their users are susceptible to multiple threats. In this paper we present an effort to explain the functionality of some of the most popular crypto currencies available in the online market. We present an analysis of the mining methodologies employed by these currencies to induce new currency into the market and how they compete with each other to provide fast, decentralized transactions to the users. We also share, some of the most dangerous attacks that can be placed on these crypto currencies and how the overall model of the crypto currencies mitigates these attacks. Towards the end, we will present taxonomy of the five highly popular crypto currencies and compare their features.

Keywords: Crypto Currency; Bitcoin; Ripple; Litecoin; Dash coin; Stellar

Sufian Hameed and Sameet Farooq, “The Art of Crypto Currencies” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), 7(12), 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2016.071255

@article{Hameed2016,
title = {The Art of Crypto Currencies},
journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2016.071255},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2016.071255},
year = {2016},
publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
volume = {7},
number = {12},
author = {Sufian Hameed and Sameet Farooq}
}



Copyright Statement: This is an open access article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, even commercially as long as the original work is properly cited.

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