2 papers
cs.CR2020
An Empirical Analysis of Privacy in the Lightning Network
George Kappos, Haaroon Yousaf, Ania Piotrowska +4
Payment channel networks, and the Lightning Network in particular, seem to offer a solution to the lack of scalability and privacy offered by Bitcoin and other blockchain-based cry…
cs.CR2018
TxProbe: Discovering Bitcoin's Network Topology Using Orphan Transactions
Sergi Delgado-Segura, Surya Bakshi, Cristina Pérez-Solà +4
Bitcoin relies on a peer-to-peer overlay network to broadcast transactions and blocks. From the viewpoint of network measurement, we would like to observe this topology so we can c…