2 papers
cs.CR2020
Model Checking Bitcoin and other Proof-of-Work Consensus Protocols
Max DiGiacomo-Castillo, Yiyun Liang, Advay Pal +1
The Bitcoin Backbone Protocol [GKL15] is an abstraction of the bitcoin proof-of-work consensus protocol. We use a model-checking tool (UPPAALSMC) to examine the concrete security o…
cs.PL2020
Resources: A Safe Language Abstraction for Money
Sam Blackshear, David L. Dill, Shaz Qadeer +4
Smart contracts are programs that implement potentially sophisticated transactions on modern blockchain platforms. In the rapidly evolving blockchain environment, smart contract pr…