Analysis of a Consensus Protocol for Extending Consistent Subchains on the Bitcoin Blockchain <sup>†</sup>

Currently, an increasing number of third-party applications exploit the Bitcoin blockchain to store tamper-proof records of their executions, immutably. For this purpose, they leverage the few extra bytes available for encoding custom metadata in Bitcoin transactions. A sequence of records of the sa...

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Main Authors: Riccardo Longo, Alessandro Sebastian Podda, Roberto Saia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-07-01
Series:Computation
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2079-3197/8/3/67