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LNGate: Secure Bidirectional IoT Micro-payments using Bitcoin's Lightning Network and Threshold Cryptography
Ahmet Kurt, Kemal Akkaya, Sabri Yilmaz +3
Bitcoin has emerged as a revolutionary payment system with its decentralized ledger concept; however it has significant problems such as high transaction fees and low throughput. L…
D-LNBot: A Scalable, Cost-Free and Covert Hybrid Botnet on Bitcoin's Lightning Network
Ahmet Kurt, Enes Erdin, Kemal Akkaya +2
While various covert botnets were proposed in the past, they still lack complete anonymization for their servers/botmasters or suffer from slow communication between the botmaster…
3-of-3 Multisignature Approach for Enabling Lightning Network Micro-payments on IoT Devices
Ahmet Kurt, Suat Mercan, Enes Erdin +1
Bitcoin's success as a cryptocurrency enabled it to penetrate into many daily life transactions. Its problems regarding the transaction fees and long validation times are addressed…
LNGate: Powering IoT with Next Generation Lightning Micro-payments using Threshold Cryptography
Ahmet Kurt, Suat Mercan, Omer Shlomovits +2
Bitcoin has emerged as a revolutionary payment system with its decentralized ledger concept however it has significant problems such as high transaction fees and long confirmation…
An Evaluation of Cryptocurrency Payment Channel Networks and Their Privacy Implications
Enes Erdin, Suat Mercan, Kemal Akkaya
Cryptocurrencies redefined how money can be stored and transferred among users. However, independent of the amount being sent, public blockchain-based cryptocurrencies suffer from…
Cryptocurrency Solutions to Enable Micro-payments in Consumer IoT
Suat Mercan, Ahmet Kurt, Enes Erdin +1
The successful amalgamation of cryptocurrency and consumer Internet of Things (IoT) devices can pave the way for novel applications in machine-to-machine economy. However, the lack…
Enabling Micro-payments on IoT Devices using Bitcoin Lightning Network
Ahmet Kurt, Suat Mercan, Enes Erdin +1
Lightning Network (LN) addresses the scalability problem of Bitcoin by leveraging off-chain transactions. Nevertheless, it is not possible to run LN on resource-constrained IoT dev…
Improving Transaction Success Rate via Smart Gateway Selection in Cryptocurrency Payment Channel Networks
Suat Mercan, Enes Erdin, Kemal Akkaya
The last decade has experienced a vast interest in Blockchain-based cryptocurrencies with a specific focus on the applications of this technology. However, slow confirmation times…
Improving Sustainability of Cryptocurrency Payment Networks for IoT Applications
Suat Mercan, Enes Erdin, Kemal Akkaya
Blockchain-based cryptocurrencies received a lot of attention recently for their applications in many domains. IoT domain is one of such applications, which can utilize cryptocur-r…
LNBot: A Covert Hybrid Botnet on Bitcoin Lightning Network for Fun and Profit
Ahmet Kurt, Enes Erdin, Mumin Cebe +2
While various covert botnets were proposed in the past, they still lack complete anonymization for their servers/botmasters or suffer from slow communication between the botmaster…
Block4Forensic: An Integrated Lightweight Blockchain Framework for Forensics Applications of Connected Vehicles
Mumin Cebe, Enes Erdin, Kemal Akkaya +2
Today's vehicles are becoming cyber-physical systems that do not only communicate with other vehicles but also gather various information from hundreds of sensors within them. Thes…