BCOSN: A Blockchain-Based Decentralized Online Social Network

Jiang, Le; Zhang, Xinglin

doi:10.1109/tcss.2019.2941650

Cited by 80 publications

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“…Other important projects are: Minds, FORESTING, 4 and SocialX. For what concerns academic proposals, BCOSN [17] represents a very important example of BOSM focused on privacy issues, where the blockchain is employed to provide decentralised access control services.…”

Section: Blockchain Technology and Social Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

Analysis of Witnesses in the Steem Blockchain

2021

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Online Social Networking platforms (OSNs) have become part of people’s everyday life and their usage covers the deep-rooted need for communication among humans. During recent years, as people are questioning more and more OSN service providers, a new generation of proposals, based on blockchain became very popular thanks to the ethics adopted by these platforms. Steemit is the most important blockchain-based social networking site, which integrates, as main novelty an economic layer to the social media service. Steemit is implemented on top of Steem which, as in other blockchains, awards miners of the blocks with cryptocurrency. Steem miners, called witnesses, are not chosen based on the solution of a mathematical problem, as in Proof of Work based systems, but must be voted by other users. In this work, we decide to study the witnesses on Steem and their contribution to the social platform Steemit, and their social impact. We performed a set of analyses to shred light concerning their behaviour and to understand how they are socially perceived by other users. Analyses show an important social impact but, at the same time, some of them have a negative social impact. Their discussion is polarized towards content concerning Steem, Steemit, witnesses, and other platforms hosted on Steem.

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Section: Blockchain Technology and Social Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

Analysis of Witnesses in the Steem Blockchain

2021

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“…Guidi (2020) presented a detailed characterisation of these social media platforms. Jiang and Zhang (2019) developed a blockchain-based DSN. In this social network, user data are kept in the blockchain and a user can modify and delete its data.…”

Section: Related Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Rumour prevention in social networks with layer 2 blockchains

Thakur

Breslin

2021

Soc. Netw. Anal. Min.

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Social bots can cause social, political, and economical disruptions by spreading rumours. The state-of-the-art methods to prevent social bots from spreading rumours are centralised and such solutions may not be accepted by users who may not trust a centralised solution being biased. In this paper, we developed a decentralised method to prevent social bots. In this solution, the users of a social network create a secure and privacy-preserving decentralised social network and may accept social media content if it is sent by its neighbour in the decentralised social network. As users only choose their trustworthy neighbours from the social network to be part of its neighbourhood in the decentralised social network, it prevents the social bots to influence a user to accept and share a rumour. We prove that the proposed solution can significantly reduce the number of users who are share rumour.

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“…Other important projects are: Minds, FORESTING 7 , and SocialX. In terms of academic proposals, BCOSN [26] represents a BOSM focused on privacy issues, when the blockchain is used as a trusted server to provide central control services.…”

Section: B Blockchain-based Social Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

Steem Blockchain: Mining the Inner Structure of the Graph

2020

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Since their introduction, Online Social Networks (OSNs) have transformed the way people interact with each other. Lately, a new trend is rising in the development of OSNs, fueled by an increasing interest of the blockchain technology and the benefits it can bring to the world of OSNs. Blockchain Online Social Media (BOSMs) are Social Media applications that are supported by the blockchain technology. Thanks to a blockchain, BOSMs either try to enforce the privacy of the users or try to redistribute with their users the economic wealth generated by the platform through a rewarding system. There are countless BOSMs available which incorporate a rewarding system. Among them, Steemit can be considered the most wellknown platform exceeding 1 million registered users. Steemit is supported by the blockchain Steem, which is a blockchain that natively supports the development of social applications by the usage of transactions that model social activity. Even if other important blockchains, such as Ethereum has been widely analysed, at the best of our knowledge, no study exists concerning the topology of the transactions graph of Steem. The main goal of this paper is to study the structure of the Steem transaction graph to understand its characteristics and unveil crucial knowledge concerning their users. More in detail, we build the Interactions Graph and, after its study, we evaluate three subgraphs that capture its social and monetary aspects. The degree distributions of the graphs follow a power-law. Additionally, we detect a substantial number of bots that offer paid services on the platform among the most active users. Lastly, the investigation of the four analysed graphs through a bow-tie structure, suggesting that half of the users have a passive social behaviour and that 80% of the users tend to accrue economic value.

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BCOSN: A Blockchain-Based Decentralized Online Social Network

Cited by 80 publications

References 34 publications

Analysis of Witnesses in the Steem Blockchain

Analysis of Witnesses in the Steem Blockchain

Rumour prevention in social networks with layer 2 blockchains

Steem Blockchain: Mining the Inner Structure of the Graph

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