B-ROSCA: a smart contract-based selection of ROSCA communities using collateral

Z Batool, SI Sion, RT Naha… - 2023 IEEE International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The rise in inflation triggered by the COVID pandemic puts tremendous pressure on low or
fixed-income family, who may be unqualified to take loans from banks. As a solution to this, a …

Spartangold: a blockchain for education, experimentation, and rapid prototyping

TH Austin - Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Conference, 2020 - Springer
Since the introduction of Bitcoin and the blockchain, the cryptocurrency space has seen
rapid innovation in both academic research and in cutting edge designs from industry …

TontineCoin: Survivor-based Proof-of-Stake

C Pollett, TH Austin, K Potika, J Rietz… - Peer-to-Peer Networking …, 2022 - Springer
Proof-of-Stake cryptocurrencies avoid many of the computational and environmental costs
associated with Proof-of-Work protocols. However, they must address the nothing-at-stake …