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Why is a Ravencoin Like a TokenDesk? An Exploration of Code Diversity in the Cryptocurrency Landscape
Pierre Reibel, Haaroon Yousaf, Sarah Meiklejohn
Interest in cryptocurrencies has skyrocketed since their introduction a decade ago, with hundreds of billions of dollars now invested across a landscape of thousands of different c…
Tracing Transactions Across Cryptocurrency Ledgers
Haaroon Yousaf, George Kappos, Sarah Meiklejohn
One of the defining features of a cryptocurrency is that its ledger, containing all transactions that have evertaken place, is globally visible. As one consequenceof this degree of…
An Empirical Analysis of Anonymity in Zcash
George Kappos, Haaroon Yousaf, Mary Maller +1
Among the now numerous alternative cryptocurrencies derived from Bitcoin, Zcash is often touted as the one with the strongest anonymity guarantees, due to its basis in well-regarde…
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…
VAMS: Verifiable Auditing of Access to Confidential Data
Alexander Hicks, Vasilios Mavroudis, Mustafa Al-Bassam +2
We propose VAMS, a system that enables transparency for audits of access to data requests without compromising the privacy of parties in the system. VAMS supports audits on an aggr…
Winning the Caucus Race: Continuous Leader Election via Public Randomness
Sarah Azouvi, Patrick McCorry, Sarah Meiklejohn
Consensus protocols inherently rely on the notion of leader election, in which one or a subset of participants are temporarily elected to authorize and announce the network's lates…