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06/29/2023
Would Friedman Burn your Tokens?
Cryptocurrencies come with a variety of tokenomic policies as well as as...
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04/12/2023
Tiered Mechanisms for Blockchain Transaction Fees
Blockchain systems come with the promise of being inclusive for a variet...
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11/02/2022
SoK: A Stratified Approach to Blockchain Decentralization
Decentralization has been touted as the principal security advantage whi...
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08/22/2022
Optimal Bootstrapping of PoW Blockchains
Proof of Work (PoW) blockchains are susceptible to adversarial majority ...
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01/27/2022
Minotaur: Multi-Resource Blockchain Consensus
Resource-based consensus is the backbone of permissionless distributed l...
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01/18/2022
SoK: Blockchain Governance
Blockchain systems come with a promise of decentralization that often st...
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01/03/2022
Blockchain Nash Dynamics and the Pursuit of Compliance
We study Nash-dynamics in the context of blockchain protocols. We introd...
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12/18/2021
Decentralizing Information Technology: The Advent of Resource Based Systems
The growth of the Bitcoin network during the first decade of its operati...
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11/16/2021
Incentives Against Power Grabs or How to Engineer the Revolution in a Pooled Proof of Stake System
Proof-of-Stake (PoS) blockchain systems, especially those that allow sta...
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07/26/2021
Filling the Tax Gap via Programmable Money
We discuss the problem of facilitating tax auditing assuming "programmab...
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06/02/2021
Babel Fees via Limited Liabilities
Custom currencies (ERC-20) on Ethereum are wildly popular, but they are ...
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12/30/2020
Post-Quantum Security of the Bitcoin Backbone and Quantum Multi-Solution Bernoulli Search
Bitcoin and its underlying blockchain protocol have recently received si...
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01/15/2020
Consistency of Proof-of-Stake Blockchains with Concurrent Honest Slot Leaders
We improve the fundamental security threshold of Proof-of-Stake (PoS) bl...
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12/31/2019
Coalition-Safe Equilibria with Virtual Payoffs
Consider a set of parties invited to execute a protocol Π. The protocol ...
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11/22/2019
Linear Consistency for Proof-of-Stake Blockchains
The blockchain data structure maintained via the longest-chain rule—popu...
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07/04/2019
Cryptocurrency Egalitarianism: A Quantitative Approach
Since the invention of Bitcoin one decade ago, numerous cryptocurrencies...
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02/03/2019
On the Practicality of Smart Contract PKI
Public key infrastructures (PKIs) are one of the main building blocks fo...
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11/04/2018
Structure and Content of the Visible Darknet
In this paper, we analyze the topology and the content found on the "dar...
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10/03/2018
A Puff of Steem: Security Analysis of Decentralized Content Curation
Decentralized content curation is the process through which uploaded pos...
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07/30/2018