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Selfish & Opaque Transaction Ordering in the Bitcoin Blockchain: The Case for Chain Neutrality
Johnnatan Messias, Mohamed Alzayat, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran +3
Most public blockchain protocols, including the popular Bitcoin and Ethereum blockchains, do not formally specify the order in which miners should select transactions from the pool…
cs.CR2021★ 3 cited
Modeling Coordinated vs. P2P Mining: An Analysis of Inefficiency and Inequality in Proof-of-Work Blockchains
Mohamed Alzayat, Johnnatan Messias, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran +2
We study efficiency in a proof-of-work blockchain with non-zero latencies, focusing in particular on the (inequality in) individual miners' efficiencies. Prior work attributed diff…