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10 papers
Validated Byzantine Asynchronous Multidimensional Approximate Agreement
Maya Dotan, Gilad Stern, Aviv Zohar
Consider an asynchronous system where each node begins with some point in . Given some fixed , we wish to have every nonfaulty node eventually output a point in…
Survey on Cryptocurrency Networking: Context, State-of-the-Art, Challenges
Maya Dotan, Yvonne-Anne Pignolet, Stefan Schmid +2
Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin are realized using distributed systems and hence critically rely on the performance and security of the interconnecting network. The requirements o…
Optimizing Off-Chain Payment Networks in Cryptocurrencies
Yotam Sali, Aviv Zohar
Off-chain transaction channels represent one of the leading techniques to scale the transaction throughput in cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. They allow multiple agents to route…
Flood & Loot: A Systemic Attack On The Lightning Network
Jona Harris, Aviv Zohar
The Lightning Network promises to alleviate Bitcoin's known scalability problems. The operation of such second layer approaches relies on the ability of participants to turn to the…
Congestion Attacks in Payment Channel Networks
Ayelet Mizrahi, Aviv Zohar
Payment channel networks provide a fast and scalable solution to relay funds, acting as a second layer to slower and less scalable blockchain protocols. In this paper, we present a…
Hijacking Routes in Payment Channel Networks: A Predictability Tradeoff
Saar Tochner, Stefan Schmid, Aviv Zohar
Off-chain transaction networks can mitigate the scalability issues of today's trustless electronic cash systems such as Bitcoin. However, these peer-to-peer networks also introduce…