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most citedFlood & Loot: A Systemic Attack On The Lightning Network

14 citations · 20 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.DC20221 cited

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…

cs.NI20202 cited

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…

cs.GT20202 cited

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…

cs.CR202014 cited

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…

cs.CR2020

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…

cs.CR2019

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…