2 papers
cs.CR2018
Compounding of Wealth in Proof-of-Stake Cryptocurrencies
Giulia Fanti, Leonid Kogan, Sewoong Oh +3
Proof-of-stake (PoS) is a promising approach for designing efficient blockchains, where block proposers are randomly chosen with probability proportional to their stake. A primary…
cs.NI2018
High Throughput Cryptocurrency Routing in Payment Channel Networks
Vibhaalakshmi Sivaraman, Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan, Kathy Ruan +5
Despite growing adoption of cryptocurrencies, making fast payments at scale remains a challenge. Payment channel networks (PCNs) such as the Lightning Network have emerged as a via…