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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…
Pricing ASICs for Cryptocurrency Mining
Aviv Yaish, Aviv Zohar
Cryptocurrencies that are based on Proof-of-Work (PoW) often rely on special purpose hardware to perform so-called mining operations that secure the system, with miners receiving f…
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…