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Bitcoin Transaction Networks: an overview of recent results
Nicolò Vallarano, Claudio Tessone, Tiziano Squartini
Cryptocurrencies are distributed systems that allow exchanges of native (and non-) tokens among participants. The complete historical bookkeeping and its wide availability opens up…
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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,…