Consensus Crash Testing: Exploring Ripple’s Decentralization Degree in Adversarial Environments

The inception of Bitcoin as a peer-to-peer payment system, and its underlying blockchain data-structure and protocol, has led to an increased interest in deploying scalable and reliable distributed-<i>ledger</i> systems that build on robust consensus protocols. A critical requirement of...

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Published in:	Future Internet
Main Authors:	Klitos Christodoulou, Elias Iosif, Antonios Inglezakis, Marinos Themistocleous
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI AG 2020-03-01
Subjects:	ripple blockchain distributed ledgers consensus byzantine-fault tolerance
Online Access:	https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/12/3/53