2 papers
cs.NI2026
How Bitcoin Forms Its Network: Peer-Table Sampling and Structural Properties
Taki E. M. Abedesselam, Antonio Cruciani, Fabio Giacomelli +2
The global structure of P2P networks underlying modern cryptocurrencies is hidden by design: each node only knows its neighbors and maintains a local \textit{peer table} of IP addr…
cs.NI2025
Payment-failure times for random Lightning paths
Taki E. M. Abedesselam, Fabio Giacomelli, Francesco Pasquale +1
We study a random process over graphs inspired by the way payments are executed in the Lightning Network, the main layer-two solution on top of Bitcoin. We first prove almost tight…