High Performance, Low Energy, and Trustworthy Blockchains...
Shasha, Dennis / Kim, Taegyun / Bonneau, Joseph
Blockchains are meant to provide an append-only sequence (ledger) of transactions. Security commonly relies on a consensus protocol in which forks in the sequence are either prevented completely or are exponentially unlikely to last more than a few blocks. This monograph proposes the design of algorithms and a system to achieve high performance (a few seconds from the time of initiation for transactions to enter the blockchain), the absence of...