Trend of centralization in Bitcoin's distributed network

2015 IEEE/ACIS 16th International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing, SNPD 2015 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages

  Beikverdi, Alireza ^a   Song, Jooseok ^a  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Bitcoin; Bitcoin pool; Centralization; Decentralized network; Mining

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ECONOMICS; LAKES; MINING; PEER TO PEER NETWORKS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

BITCOIN; BITCOIN POOL; CENTRALIZATION; DECENTRALIZED NETWORKS; DECENTRALIZED PROTOCOLS; DISTRIBUTED NETWORKS; FAST PROCESSING; FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS;

ELECTRONIC MONEY;

EID: 84947081178     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SNPD.2015.7176229     Document Type: Conference Paper

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