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Matchertext: Towards Verbatim Interlanguage Embedding
Bryan Ford
Embedding text in one language within text of another is commonplace for numerous purposes, but usually requires tedious and error-prone "escaping" transformations on the embedded…
F3B: A Low-Overhead Blockchain Architecture with Per-Transaction Front-Running Protection
Haoqian Zhang, Louis-Henri Merino, Ziyan Qu +3
Front-running attacks, which benefit from advanced knowledge of pending transactions, have proliferated in the blockchain space since the emergence of decentralized finance. Front-…
Baxos: Backing off for Robust and Efficient Consensus
Pasindu Tennage, Cristina Basescu, Eleftherios Kokoris Kogias +3
Leader-based consensus algorithms are vulnerable to liveness and performance downgrade attacks. We explore the possibility of replacing leader election in Multi-Paxos with random e…
Economic Principles of PoPCoin, a Democratic Time-based Cryptocurrency
Haoqian Zhang, Cristina Basescu, Bryan Ford
While democracy is founded on the principle of equal opportunity to manage our lives and pursue our fortunes, the forms of money we have inherited from millenia of evolution has br…
Que Sera Consensus: Simple Asynchronous Agreement with Private Coins and Threshold Logical Clocks
Bryan Ford, Philipp Jovanovic, Ewa Syta
It is commonly held that asynchronous consensus is much more complex, difficult, and costly than partially-synchronous algorithms, especially without using common coins. This paper…
Rationality is Self-Defeating in Permissionless Systems
Bryan Ford, Rainer Böhme
We outline a metacircular argument explaining why it is rational to be irrational when attacking open-world decentralized systems, and why systems whose security depend on rational…