3 papers
cs.CR2019
Eclipsing Ethereum Peers with False Friends
Sebastian Henningsen, Daniel Teunis, Martin Florian +1
Ethereum is a decentralized Blockchain system that supports the execution of Turing-complete smart contracts. Although the security of the Ethereum ecosystem has been studied in th…
q-fin.GN2019
Monetary Stabilization in Cryptocurrencies - Design Approaches and Open Questions
Ingolf G. A. Pernice, Sebastian Henningsen, Roman Proskalovich +3
The price volatility of cryptocurrencies is often cited as a major hindrance to their wide-scale adoption. Consequently, during the last two years, multiple so called stablecoins h…
cs.CR2019
Erasing Data from Blockchain Nodes
Martin Florian, Sophie Beaucamp, Sebastian Henningsen +1
It is a common narrative that blockchains are immutable and so it is technically impossible to erase data stored on them. For legal and ethical reasons, however, individuals and or…