Difficulty control for blockchain-based consensus systems

Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 397-413

  Kraft, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bitcoin mining; Crypto currency; Nakamoto blockchain; Namecoin; Poisson process

Indexed keywords

POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

BLOCK TIME; BLOCK-CHAIN; NAMECOIN; POISSON PROCESS; REAL-WORLD; S-METHOD; TIME DEPENDENT;

ELECTRONIC MONEY;

EID: 84957552873     PISSN: 19366442     EISSN: 19366450     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12083-015-0347-x     Document Type: Article

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