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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 Institution2020

The 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 MACHINERY2019

On the Unfairness of Blockchain

Rachid Guerraoui, Junxiong Wang

The success of Bitcoin largely relies on the perception of a fair underlying peer-to-peer protocol: blockchain. Fairness here essentially means that the reward (in bitcoins) given to any participant that helps maintain the consistency of the protocol by mi ...

2018

On the Unfairness of Blockchain

Rachid Guerraoui, Junxiong Wang

Springer2018

Poster: 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 Machinery2016

LocalCoin: An ad-hoc payment scheme for areas with high connectivity: poster.

Boi Faltings, Sujit Prakash Gujar, Dimitrios Chatzopoulos

ACM2016

Exchange Rates and Fiscal Adjustments; Evidence from the OECD and Implications for the EMU

Luisa Lambertini

This paper investigates whether monetary and exchange rate policies are important for the success of major fiscal adjustments. We assess their role controlling for other determinants of success identified in the literature, including the size and compositi ...

2005

Nuglets: a Virtual Currency to Stimulate Cooperation in Self-Organized Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Levente Buttyan

In mobile ad hoc networks, it is usually assumed that all the nodes belong to the same authority; therefore, they are expected to cooperate in order to support the basic functions of the network such as routing. In this paper, we consider the case in which ...

2001

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