Bitcoin

CoinPrune: Shrinking Bitcoin's Blockchain Retrospectively
Popular cryptocurrencies continue to face serious scalability issues due to their ever-growing blockchains. Thus, modern blockchain …
Roman Matzutt, Benedikt Kalde, Jan Pennekamp, Arthur Drichel, Martin Henze, Klaus Wehrle
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Utilizing Public Blockchains for the Sybil-Resistant Bootstrapping of Distributed Anonymity Services
Distributed anonymity services, such as onion routing networks or cryptocurrency tumblers, promise privacy protection without trusted …
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How to Securely Prune Bitcoin’s Blockchain
Bitcoin was the first successful decentralized cryptocurrency and remains the most popular of its kind to this day. Despite the …
Roman Matzutt, Benedikt Kalde, Jan Pennekamp, Arthur Drichel, Martin Henze, Klaus Wehrle
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Dispute Resolution for Smart Contract-based Two Party Protocols
Blockchain systems promise to mediate interactions of mutually distrusting parties without a trusted third party. However, protocols …
Eric Wagner, Achim Völker, Frederik Fuhrmann, Roman Matzutt, Klaus Wehrle
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Thwarting Unwanted Blockchain Content Insertion
Since the introduction of Bitcoin in 2008, blockchain systems have seen an enormous increase in adoption. By providing a persistent, …
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