Tampering with the delivery of blocks and transactions in Bitcoin

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security

Volumn 2015-October, Issue , 2015, Pages 692-705

  Gervais, Arthur ^a   Ritzdorf, Hubert ^a   Karame, Ghassan O ^b   Čapkun, Srdjan ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bitcoin; Countermeasures; Preventing object delivery

Indexed keywords

RADAR COUNTERMEASURES; SCALABILITY;

AMOUNT OF INFORMATION; BITCOIN; BLOCK SIZES; NETWORK PARTITIONING; PREVENTING OBJECT DELIVERY;

ELECTRONIC MONEY;

EID: 84954139059     PISSN: 15437221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2810103.2813655     Document Type: Conference Paper

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