Maria Potop-Butucaru

ZeroBlock: Preventing Selfish Mining in Bitcoin

2016 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Bitcoin was recently introduced as a peer-to-peer electronic currency in order to facilitate transactions outside the traditional financial system. The core of Bitcoin, the Blockchain, is the history of the transactions in the system maintained …

Atomic cross chain swaps via relays and adapters

2020

Blockchain technologies have proven their potential when it comes to store assets and value. However, swapping assets across chains, for example trading ethers for bitcoins is still a challenging problem to solve. Current solutions widely …

Distributed Ledger Register: From Safe to Atomic

2019 · HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)

This paper continues the recent line of academic effort dedicated to formalizing distributed ledgers. This work is the first one to propose a specification of distributed ledger register that matches the Lamport hierarchy from safe …