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most citedConsensus in the Age of Blockchains

187 citations · 187 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cs.CR2022

Modeling Resources in Permissionless Longest-chain Total-order Broadcast

Sarah Azouvi, Christian Cachin, Duc V. Le +2

Blockchain protocols implement total-order broadcast in a permissionless setting, where processes can freely join and leave. In such a setting, to safeguard against Sybil attacks,…

cs.GT2022

Decentralisation Conscious Players And System Reliability

Sarah Azouvi, Alexander Hicks

We propose a game-theoretic model of the reliability of decentralised systems based on Varian's model of system reliability, to which we add a new normalised total effort case that…

cs.CR2021

Private Attacks in Longest Chain Proof-of-stake Protocols with Single Secret Leader Elections

Sarah Azouvi, Daniele Cappelletti

Single Secret Leader Elections have recently been proposed as an improved leader election mechanism for proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchains. However, the security gain they provide ha…

cs.CR2019

SoK: Tools for Game Theoretic Models of Security for Cryptocurrencies

Sarah Azouvi, Alexander Hicks

Cryptocurrencies have garnered much attention in recent years, both from the academic community and industry. One interesting aspect of cryptocurrencies is their explicit considera…

cs.CR2019

Incentivising Privacy in Cryptocurrencies

Sarah Azouvi, Haaroon Yousaf, Alexander Hicks

Privacy was one of the key points mentioned in Nakamoto's Bitcoin whitepaper, and one of the selling points of Bitcoin in its early stages. In hindsight, however, de-anonymising Bi…

cs.CR2018

Betting on Blockchain Consensus with Fantomette

Sarah Azouvi, Patrick McCorry, Sarah Meiklejohn

Blockchain-based consensus protocols present the opportunity to develop new protocols, due to their novel requirements of open participation and explicit incentivization of partici…