Measurement and analysis of the bitcoin networks: A view from mining pools

C Wang, X Chu, Y Qin - 2020 6th International Conference on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Bitcoin network has received much attention from both industry and academy due to
Bitcoin's recent success. Mining pools, the main components of the Bitcoin network …

Performance benchmarking of smart contracts to assess miner incentives in Ethereum

A Aldweesh, M Alharby, E Solaiman… - 2018 14th European …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A defining feature of the Ethereum blockchain is its ability to execute smart contracts,
providing a Turing complete programming model for distributed applications in non-trusted …

Smart contract-based pool hopping attack prevention for blockchain networks

SK Singh, MM Salim, M Cho, J Cha, Y Pan, JH Park - Symmetry, 2019 - mdpi.com
Pool hopping attack is the result of miners leaving the pool when it offers fewer financial
rewards and joining back when the rewards of mining yield higher rewards in blockchain …

[图书][B] Blockchain and cryptocurrencies technologies and network structures: applications, implications and beyond

L Morhaim - 2019 - books.google.com
Blockchain technology is bringing together concepts and operations from several fields,
including computing, communications networks, cryptography, and has broad implications …

Uncle traps: Harvesting rewards in a queue-based ethereum mining pool

SM Werner, PJ Pritz, A Zamyatin… - Proceedings of the 12th …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Mining pools in Proof-of-Work cryptocurrencies allow miners to pool their computational
resources as a means of reducing payout variance. In Ethereum, uncle blocks are valid …

Nash equilibrium of multiple, non-uniform bitcoin block withholding attackers

S Elliott - 2019 2nd International Conference on Data …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This research analyzes a seemingly malicious behavior known as a block withholding
(BWH) attack between pools of cryptocurrency miners in Bitcoin-like systems featuring …

Comparative Analysis of Energy Consumption of Cryptocurrencies with Experimental Study Approach in the Scope of Green Computing

E Çağlar, M Bal - Afyon Kocatepe Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler …, 2024 - dergipark.org.tr
Many technologies enter our lives with the great advancement in information technology.
These technological developments affect and change our life directly. According to affection …

Ignore the extra zeroes: Variance-optimal mining pools

T Roughgarden, C Shikhelman - … , FC 2021, Virtual Event, March 1–5 …, 2021 - Springer
Mining pools decrease the variance in the income of cryptocurrency miners (compared to
solo mining) by distributing rewards to participating miners according to the shares …

Poolsim: A discrete-event mining pool simulation framework

SM Werner, D Perez - Mathematical Research for Blockchain Economy: 1st …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract In Proof-of-Work cryptocurrencies, fair reward distribution within mining pools has
become a popular area of research. Aside from a theoretical grounding, mining pool reward …

[PDF][PDF] Towards the Model-Based Analysis and Design of Decentralised Economies of Things

B Herd, N Scharmann, S Phelps - King's Research Portal, 2018 - researchgate.net
Since the first entirely decentralised cryptocurrency protocol, was published in 2008 [11], the
interest in Blockchain and mutual distributed ledger (MDL) technology has increased …