Blockchain promises to provide a distributed and decentralized means of trust among
untrusted users. However, in recent years, a shift from decentrality to centrality has been …

Blockchain-based cryptocurrencies have demonstrated how to securely implement
traditionally centralized systems, such as currencies, in a decentralized fashion. However …

Decentralization has been widely acknowledged as a core virtue of blockchains. However,
in the past, there have been few measurement studies on measuring and comparing the …

Blockchain introduces decentralized trust in peer-to-peer networks, advancing security and
democratizing systems. Yet, a unified definition for decentralization remains elusive. Our …

Bitcoin and Ethereum have always been the two major heavyweight infrastructures in the
blockchain space. However, Low throughput and high cost hinder their further development …

Decentralization has been touted as the principal security advantage which propelled
blockchain systems at the forefront of developments in the financial technology space. Its …

Bitcoin introduced delegation of control over a monetary system from a select few to all who
participate in that system. This delegation is known as the decentralization of controlling …

With cryptocurrencies and blockchain-based networks being increasingly used for more and
more applications, a fundamental issue is now being noticed; scalability. In this paper, we …

Decentralization is a key selling point of most public blockchain platforms. However, despite
the widely acknowledged importance of this property, most researches on this topic lack …

The blockchain paradigm provides a mechanism for content dissemination and distributed
consensus on Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks. While this paradigm has been widely adopted …