Blockchain technology era is triggered due to current advancement in the decentralized
paradigms via facilitating secure collaboration among untrusted entities consequently …

Blockchains, introduced in 2008, have garnered significant attention from both academia
and industry. Cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin, which rely on blockchains, have great …

The interest has grown around Bitcoin as a trustless and decentralized digital payment
service. Along with the increase in users and transactions, Bitcoin suffers from challenges …

As a promising method to enable fast and scalable Bitcoin transactions, Bitcoin Lightning
Network (LN) has experienced rapid development since the end of 2017. LN utilizes the so …

Bitcoin and other blockchain-based cryptocurrency do not scale, because the blockchain
limits transaction throughput. Payment channel networks are the most promising solution to …

Public cryptocurrencies still suffer from low scalability despite their recent success. While
traditional payment methods, such as credit cards, process over 24,000 transactions per …

Blockchain is the latest disruptive innovation. It is the underlying technology of
cryptocurrency. However, the facts show that most cryptocurrencies are stuck in big issues …

One of the fundamental problems that hinders the current blockchain systems for industrial
use is scalability. Lightning Network has been proposed to address this challenge, which …

In recent years, the surge of blockchain technology has been rising due to is proven
reliability in ensuring secure and effective transactions, even between untrusted parties. Its …

Blockchain technology is affected by massive limitations in scalability with consequent
repercussions on performance. This discussion aims at analyzing the state of the art of …