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Coalition-Safe Equilibria with Virtual Payoffs
Aggelos Kiayias, Aikaterini-Panagiota Stouka
Consider a set of parties invited to execute a protocol . The protocol will incur some cost to run while in the end (or at regular intervals), it will populate and update local…
Linear Consistency for Proof-of-Stake Blockchains
Erica Blum, Aggelos Kiayias, Cristopher Moore +2
The blockchain data structure maintained via the longest-chain rule---popularized by Bitcoin---is a powerful algorithmic tool for consensus algorithms. Such algorithms achieve cons…
Cryptocurrency Egalitarianism: A Quantitative Approach
Dimitris Karakostas, Aggelos Kiayias, Christos Nasikas +1
Since the invention of Bitcoin one decade ago, numerous cryptocurrencies have sprung into existence. Among these, proof-of-work is the most common mechanism for achieving consensus…
On the Practicality of Smart Contract PKI
Christos Patsonakis, Katerina Samari, Aggelos Kiayias +1
Public key infrastructures (PKIs) are one of the main building blocks for securing communications over the Internet. Currently, PKIs are under the control of centralized authoritie…