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Proof-of-Stake Longest Chain Protocols: Security vs Predictability
Vivek Bagaria, Amir Dembo, Sreeram Kannan +5
The Nakamoto longest chain protocol is remarkably simple and has been proven to provide security against any adversary with less than 50% of the total hashing power. Proof-of-stake…
Barracuda: The Power of -polling in Proof-of-Stake Blockchains
Giulia Fanti, Jiantao Jiao, Ashok Makkuva +3
A blockchain is a database of sequential events that is maintained by a distributed group of nodes. A key consensus problem in blockchains is that of determining the next block (da…
Privacy-Utility Tradeoffs in Routing Cryptocurrency over Payment Channel Networks
Weizhao Tang, Weina Wang, Giulia Fanti +1
Payment channel networks (PCNs) are viewed as one of the most promising scalability solutions for cryptocurrencies today. Roughly, PCNs are networks where each node represents a us…