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cs.CR2020★ 1 cited
Toward Active and Passive Confidentiality Attacks On Cryptocurrency Off-Chain Networks
Utz Nisslmueller, Klaus-Tycho Foerster, Stefan Schmid +1
Cryptocurrency off-chain networks such as Lightning (e.g., Bitcoin) or Raiden (e.g., Ethereum) aim to increase the scalability of traditional on-chain transactions. To support node…
physics.soc-ph2020★ 70 cited
Lightning Network: a second path towards centralisation of the Bitcoin economy
Jian-Hong Lin, Kevin Primicerio, Tiziano Squartini +2
The Bitcoin Lightning Network (BLN), a so-called "second layer" payment protocol, was launched in 2018 to scale up the number of transactions between Bitcoin owners. In this paper,…