2 papers
cs.CR2024
Bitcoin Staking
Xinshu Dong, Orfeas Stefanos Thyfronitis Litos, Ertem Nusret Tas +4
The idea of security sharing goes back to Nakamoto's introduction of merge mining, a technique that enables Bitcoin miners to reuse their hash power to bootstrap and secure other P…
cs.CR2024
A Circuit Approach to Constructing Blockchains on Blockchains
Ertem Nusret Tas, David Tse, Yifei Wang
Since the creation of Bitcoin 15 years ago, there has been an explosion in the number of permissionless blockchains. Each of these blockchains provides an open ledger that anyone c…