Improving the Accuracy of Classifying Illegal and Legal Transactions in Bitcoin Transaction Data

Abstract

Crypto asset (Virtual currency) transactions have long been in the limelight. Crypto assets use cryptography to achieve decentralized management by participants on the Internet. Since they can be used by an unspecified number of people and there is no intermediary in the transaction, they are often misused for money laundering and terrorist financing. In this study, we adapt various machine learning methods to ELLIPTIC DATA, which is BITCOIN transaction data used in many previous studies. As a first step, we examine parameter optimization of random forests, feature refinement, sampling methods, and so on...