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A Standalone FPGA-Based Miner for Lyra2REv2 Cryptocurrencies

Alexios Konstantinos Balatsoukas Stimming, Pascal Giard, Michiel Van Beirendonck

Lyra2REv2 is a hashing algorithm that consists of a chain of individual hashing algorithms, and it is used as a proof-of-work function in several cryptocurrencies. The most crucial and exotic hashing algorithm in the Lyra2REv2 chain is a specific instance ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

Quantifying Endogeneity of Cryptocurrency Markets

Thomas Alois Weber, Michael Mark

In this paper we construct a “reflexivity” index for Bitcoin cryptocurrency that measures the amount of activity generated endogenously within the market. For this purpose we fit a univariate self-exciting Hawkes process with two-classes of parametric kern ...

2020

Time in cryptography

Gwangbae Choi

Time travel has always been a fascinating topic in literature and physics. In cryptography, one may wonder how to keep data confidential for some time. In this dissertation, we will study how to make private information travel to the future. This dissertat ...

EPFL2020

Online Payments by Merely Broadcasting Messages

Rachid Guerraoui, Daniel Patrick Collins, Jovan Komatovic, Dragos-Adrian Seredinschi, Matej Pavlovic, Matteo Monti, Athanasios Xygkis, Andrei Tonkikh

We address the problem of online payments, where users can transfer funds among themselves. We introduce Astro, a system solving this problem efficiently in a decentralized, deterministic, and completely asynchronous manner. Astro builds on the insight tha ...

IEEE2020

CALYPSO: Private Data Management for Decentralized Ledgers

Bryan Alexander Ford, Linus Gasser, Eleftherios Kokoris Kogias, Philipp Svetolik Jovanovic, Enis Ceyhun Alp

Distributed ledgers provide high availability and integrity, making them a key enabler for practical and secure computation of distributed workloads among mutually distrustful parties. Many practical applications also require strong confidentiality, howeve ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2020

Secure, Confidential Blockchains Providing High Throughput and Low Latency

Eleftherios Kokoris Kogias

One of the core promises of blockchain technology is that of enabling trustworthy data dissemination in a trustless environment. What current blockchain systems deliver, however, is slow dissemination of public data, rendering blockchain technology unusabl ...

EPFL2019

Threshold Logical Clocks for Asynchronous Distributed Coordination and Consensus

Bryan Alexander Ford

Consensus protocols for asynchronous networks are usually complex and inefficient, leading practical systems to rely on synchronous protocols. This paper attempts to simplify asynchronous consensus by building atop a novel threshold logical clock abstracti ...

2019

R3P2: a Replicated Request-Response Pair Protocol

Antoine Albertelli

Consensus protocol have seen increased usage in recent years due to the industry shift to distributed computing. However, it has traditionally been implemented in the application layer. We propose to move the consensus protocol in the transport layer, to o ...

2019

A Blockchain Consensus Protocol With Horizontal Scalability

Kelong Cong

Blockchain technology has the potential to decentralise many traditionally centralised systems. However, scalability remains a key challenge. A horizontally scalable solution, where performance increases by adding more nodes, would move blockchain systems ...

IEEE2018

A Blockchain Consensus Protocol With Horizontal Scalability

Kelong Cong

Blockchain systems have the potential to decentralise many traditionally centralised systems. However, scalability remains a key challenge. Without a horizontally scalable solution, where performance increases by adding more nodes to the system, blockchain ...

2017

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