Besides attracting a billion dollar economy, Bitcoin revolutionized the field of digital
currencies and influenced many adjacent areas. This also induced significant scientific …

Plasma is a proposed framework for incentivized and enforced execution of smart contracts
which is scalable to a significant amount of state updates per second (potentially billions) …

The bitcoin protocol can encompass the global financial transaction volume in all electronic
payment systems today, without a single custodial third party holding funds or requiring …

Since the introduction of Bitcoin [Nak09] in 2009, and the multiple computer science and
electronic cash innovations it brought, there has been great interest in the potential of …

Bitcoin is a digital currency that unlike traditional currencies does not rely on a centralized
authority. Instead Bitcoin relies on a network of volunteers that collectively implement a …

We present Catena, an efficiently-verifiable Bitcoin witnessing scheme. Catena enables any
number of thin clients, such as mobile phones, to efficiently agree on a log of application …

The bitcoin protocol [1] can encompass the global financial transaction volume in all
electronic payment systems today, without a single custodial 3rd party holding funds or …

Besides recording transfers of currency, the Bitcoin blockchain is being used to save
metadata—ie arbitrary pieces of data which do not affect transfers of bitcoins. This can be …

Bitcoin is the latest addition to the online payment transaction systems. It is a digital currency
also known as cryptocurrency. Bitcoin system is the first transaction payment system that …

This thesis investigates implicit multi-party protocols based on Schnorr signature scheme
and their benefits to the Bitcoin ecosystem. Firstly the work introduces the Schnorr signature …