Towards a more democratic mining in bitcoins

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 8880, Issue , 2014, Pages 185-203

  Paul, Goutam ^a   Sarkar, Pratik ^b   Mukherjee, Sarbajit ^c  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c Utah State University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Bitcoins; Electronic Cash System; Miners; Proof of Work

Indexed keywords

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; MINERS; PEER TO PEER NETWORKS;

BITCOINS; DECENTRALIZED ARCHITECTURE; DISTRIBUTED NETWORKS; ELECTRONIC CASH SYSTEMS; ENERGY EFFICIENT; PEER TO PEER; PROCESSING POWER; PROOF OF WORK;

BITCOIN;

EID: 84918531199     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-13841-1_11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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