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Design choices for Central Bank Digital Currency
Bryan Alexander Ford, Fan Zhang, Srdan Capkun, Ari Juels
Central banks around the world are exploring and in some cases even piloting central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). CBDCs promise to realize a broad range of new capabilities, including direct government disbursements to citizens, frictionless consumer p ...
Brookings Institution2020The Consensus Number of a Cryptocurrency
Rachid Guerraoui, Dragos-Adrian Seredinschi, Matej Pavlovic, Matteo Monti
Many blockchain-based algorithms, such as Bitcoin, implement a decentralized asset transfer system, often referred to as a cryptocurrency. As stated in the original paper by Nakamoto, at the heart of these systems lies the problem of preventing double-spen ...
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2019Poster: LocalCoin: An Ad-hoc Payment Scheme for Areas with High Connectivity
Boi Faltings, Sujit Prakash Gujar, Dimitrios Chatzopoulos
The popularity of digital currencies, especially cryptocurrencies, has been continuously growing since the appearance of Bitcoin. Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer (P2P) cryptocurrency protocol enabling transactions between individuals without the need of a truste ...
Assoc Computing Machinery2016LocalCoin: An ad-hoc payment scheme for areas with high connectivity: poster.
Boi Faltings, Sujit Prakash Gujar, Dimitrios Chatzopoulos
The popularity of digital currencies, especially cryptocurrencies, has been continuously growing since the appearance of Bitcoin. Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer (P2P) cryptocurrency protocol enabling transactions between individuals without the need of a truste ...
ACM2016