The energy market encompasses the behavior of energy supply and trading within a
platform system. By utilizing centralized or distributed trading, energy can be effectively …

Blockchain technology has emerged as a primary enabler for verification-driven transactions
between parties that do not have complete trust among themselves. Bitcoin uses this …

SBFT is a state of the art Byzantine fault tolerant state machine replication system that
addresses the challenges of scalability, decentralization and global geo-replication. SBFT is …

Blockchain has found applications to track ownership of digital assets. Yet, several
blockchains were shown vulnerable to network attacks. It is thus crucial for companies to …

Software-update mechanisms are critical to the security of modern systems, but their
typically centralized design presents a lucrative and frequently attacked target. In this work …

In this paper, we present the most extensive evaluation of blockchain system to date. To
achieve scalability across servers in more than 10 countries located on 4 different …

As cryptocurrencies and other business blockchain applications are becoming mainstream,
the amount of transactional data as well as business contracts and documents captured …

Decentralized cryptocurrencies rely on participants to keep track of the state of the system in
order to verify new transactions. As the number of users and transactions grows, this …

This book is primarily dedicated to (i) engineers who want to refine their distributed
computing expertise and take informed design decisions that can impact the security and …

Making Blockchains Secure Page 1 Chapter 5 Making Blockchains Secure Although the [consensus]
result is indeed correct, we have seen equally plausible “proof” of invalid results. Leslie …