Xavier Boyen - Bitter to Better

Relaxing with "How to make Bitcoin a better currency" by Barber, Boyen,Shi and Uzun

Bitter to Better : How to Make Bitcoin a Better Currency By Simon Barber , Xavier Boyen , Elaine Shi , and Ersin Uzun . In Financial Cryptography (FC 2012) , volume ???? of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages ???-???. Springer, 2012. Abstract Bitcoin is a distributed digital currency which has attracted a substantial number of users. We perform an in-depth investigation to understand what made Bitcoin so successful, while decades of research on cryptographic e-cash has not lead to a large-scale deployment. We ask also how Bitcoin could become a good candidate for a long-lived stable currency. In doing so, we identify several issues and attacks of Bitcoin, and propose suitable techniques to address them. Material - published paper (PS) (PDF) © Springer-Verlag - author's version (PS) (PDF) - presentation slides (HTML) Reference @InProceedings{Barber+Boyen+Shi+Uzun:FC-20...

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