Segment Blockchain: A Size Reduced Storage Mechanism for Blockchain

The exponential growth of the blockchain size has become a major contributing factor that hinders the decentralisation of blockchain and its potential implementations in data-heavy applications. In this paper, we propose segment blockchain, an approach that segmentises blockchain and enables nodes t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yibin Xu, Yangyu Huang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2020-01-01
Series:IEEE Access
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8957450/