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Page 3:Payments are made inAnd in the Acknowledgements: bitcoins (BTC's), which are digital coins issued and transferred by the bitcoin network. Nodes broadcast transactions to this network, which records them in publicly available web pages, called block chains, after validating them with a proof-of-work system.
Payments are made in bitcoins (BTC's), which are digital coins issued and transferred by the Bitcoin network. The data of all these transactions, after being validated with a proof-of-work system, is collected into what is called the block chain.
Page 12:A common prominent practice of bitcoin users is to create chains of consecutive transactions as can be seen in Fig. 7: An initial amount of 50,000 BTC's is rapidly transferred from one address to another leaving out some small amounts. In this example 350 such transactions are carried out within the fi rst two days during which the initial amount of 50,000 BTC's is reduced to 34,000 BTC's. In the next three weeks an additional 100 transactions follow and the amount is further reduced to merely 15,000 BTC's. A similar chain of length 120, with initial amount of 500,000 BTC's which decreases to 340,000 BTC's at the end of the chain, is shown in Fig. 1. Note that some of the transactions in this chain are carried out by Mt.Gox. Additional such chains can be found in Fig. 2, Fig. 3, Fig. 4 and Fig. 5, with lengths of 3, 15, 23, 26, 80 and 88 transactions.
A common prominent practice of Bitcoin users is to create chains of consecutive transactions. Some of these chains can be explained by the change mechanism in which small payments are accompanied by the creation of a new address, into which the user transfers the di erence. Such chains can be found in Fig. 2, Fig. 4, Fig. 5 and Fig. 7, with lengths of 3, 15, 26, 80, 88 and 350 transactions. However, the behavior seen in Fig. 3 deviates significantly from this pattern, since the same amount of 5,000 bitcoins is repeatedly split o ff the main sum and put into accounts which have no additional transactions associated with them.
And in the Acknowledgements:Finally, we would like to thank all the members of the bitcoin community who sent us excellent comments criticisms and suggestions.
Finally, we would like to thank all the members of the Bitcoin community, and in particular Meni Rosenfeld and Stefan Richter, who sent us excellent comments, criticisms and suggestions.
