Survey on blockchain networking: Context, state-of-the-art, challenges

M Dotan, YA Pignolet, S Schmid, S Tochner… - ACM Computing …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Blockchains, in general, and cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, in particular, are realized
using distributed systems and hence critically rely on the performance and security of the …

The security reference architecture for blockchains: Toward a standardized model for studying vulnerabilities, threats, and defenses

I Homoliak, S Venugopalan… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Blockchains are distributed systems, in which security is a critical factor for their success.
However, despite their increasing popularity and adoption, there is a lack of standardized …

[HTML][HTML] A survey on blockchain technology and its security

H Guo, X Yu - Blockchain: research and applications, 2022 - Elsevier
Blockchain is a technology that has desirable features of decentralization, autonomy,
integrity, immutability, verification, fault-tolerance, anonymity, auditability, and transparency …

Exploring sybil and double-spending risks in blockchain systems

M Iqbal, R Matulevičius - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The first step to realise the true potential of blockchain systems is to explain the associated
security risks and vulnerabilities. These risks and vulnerabilities, exploited by the threat …

Blockchain censorship

A Wahrstätter, J Ernstberger, A Yaish, L Zhou… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Permissionless blockchains promise resilience against censorship by a single entity. This
suggests that deterministic rules, not third-party actors, decide whether a transaction is …

Syncattack: Double-spending in bitcoin without mining power

M Saad, S Chen, D Mohaisen - Proceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGSAC …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
The existing Bitcoin security research has mainly followed the security models in [22, 35],
which stipulate that an adversary controls some mining power in order to violate the …

Revisiting nakamoto consensus in asynchronous networks: A comprehensive analysis of bitcoin safety and chainquality

M Saad, A Anwar, S Ravi, D Mohaisen - Proceedings of the 2021 ACM …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
The Bitcoin blockchain safety relies on strong network synchrony. Therefore, violating the
blockchain safety requires strong adversaries that control a mining pool with 51% hash rate …

Decentralized and lightweight approach to detect eclipse attacks on proof of work blockchains

B Alangot, D Reijsbergen… - … on Network and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Clients of permissionless blockchain systems, like Bitcoin, rely on an underlying peer-to-
peer network to send and receive transactions. It is critical that a client is connected to at …

[PDF][PDF] As Strong As Its Weakest Link: How to Break Blockchain DApps at RPC Service.

K Li, J Chen, X Liu, YR Tang, XF Wang, X Luo - NDSS, 2021 - comp.polyu.edu.hk
Modern blockchains have evolved from cryptocurrency substrates to trust-decentralization
platforms, supporting a wider variety of decentralized applications known as DApps …

[PDF][PDF] The Risks of the Blockchain A Review on Current Vulnerabilities and Attacks.

L König, S Unger, P Kieseberg, S Tjoa… - J. Internet Serv. Inf …, 2020 - researchgate.net
Although the first hype of blockchains is over, subject matter experts are still convinced, that
this technology has potential to enable more groundbreaking innovations in multiple …