3 papers
cs.CR2021
: A Rock-Solid Foundation for Epidemic Consensus Algorithms in Very Large, Very Open Networks
Alex Auvolat, Yérom-David Bromberg, Davide Frey +1
Recent works have proposed new Byzantine consensus algorithms for blockchains based on epidemics, a design which enables highly scalable performance at a low cost. These methods ho…
cs.DC2020
Money Transfer Made Simple: a Specification, a Generic Algorithm, and its Proof
Alex Auvolat, Davide Frey, Michel Raynal +1
It has recently been shown that, contrarily to a common belief, money transfer in the presence of faulty (Byzantine) processes does not require strong agreement such as consensus.…
cs.DC2018
Dietcoin: shortcutting the Bitcoin verification process for your smartphone
Davide Frey, Marc X. Makkes, Pierre-Louis Roman +2
Blockchains have a storage scalability issue. Their size is not bounded and they grow indefinitely as time passes. As of August 2017, the Bitcoin blockchain is about 120 GiB big wh…