2 papers
cs.CR2025
Fast Deterministically Safe Proof-of-Work Consensus
Ali Farahbakhsh, Giuliano Losa, Youer Pu +2
Permissionless blockchains achieve consensus while allowing unknown nodes to join and leave the system at any time. They typically come in two flavors: proof of work (PoW) and proo…
cs.DC2023
Gorilla: Safe Permissionless Byzantine Consensus
Youer Pu, Ali Farahbakhsh, Lorenzo Alvisi +1
Nakamoto's consensus protocol works in a permissionless model and tolerates Byzantine failures, but only offers probabilistic agreement. Recently, the Sandglass protocol has shown…