18 citations · 30 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for
3 papers
cs.CR2017★ 12 cited
An Explanation of Nakamoto's Analysis of Double-spend Attacks
A. Pinar Ozisik, Brian Neil Levine
The fundamental attack against blockchain systems is the double-spend attack. In this tutorial, we provide a very detailed explanation of just one section of Satoshi Nakamoto's ori…
cs.CR2017
Securing the Assets of Decentralized Applications using Financial Derivatives (DRAFT)
George Bissias, Brian Levine, Nikunj Kapadia
Ethereum contracts can be designed to function as fully decentralized applications called DAPPs. Many DAPPs have already been fielded, including an online marketplace, a role playi…
cs.CR2016★ 18 cited
An Analysis of Attacks on Blockchain Consensus
George Bissias, Brian Neil Levine, A. Pinar Ozisik +1
We present and validate a novel mathematical model of the blockchain mining process and use it to conduct an economic evaluation of the double-spend attack, which is fundamental to…