Paper Review - GHOST Protocol
Although I’m a big fan of Tom Cruise but this article is not about the movie from the Mission Impossible series. In this article, I discuss a paper by (Sompolinsky & Zohar, 2015)...
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Paper Review - Bitcoin and Red Balloons
The paper by (Babaioff et al., 2012) demonstrates that the peer-to-peer layer and the gossip protocol are not always incentive compatible i.e., the participants do not internalize su...
Paper Review - Economics of Blockchain
Blockchain-based Distributed Ledgers (DLs) promise to transform the existing financial system. The idea behind such a transformation is to replace centralized institutions that gover...
Paper Review - Bitcoin Backbone Protocol
The paper by (Garay et al., 2015) analyzes the consensus mechanism used in Bitcoin dubbed as the “Bitcoin Backbone Protocol”. The paper assumes a “flat-model” and proves two of the m...
Paper Review - Research Perspectives for Cryptocurrencies
The article titled “SoK: Research Perspectives and Challenges for Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies” (Bonneau et al., 2015) provides a comprehensive overview of the current state of resea...
Paper Review - Flash Boys 2.0
I had the pleasure of attending a talk by Prof. Ari Juels at EPFL’s IC Research Day (2019) on Frontrunning in Decentralised Exchanges (DEXes). Interested readers can watch the talk h...