TY - GEN
T1 - Securing and scaling cryptocurrencies
AU - Zohar, Aviv
N1 - Funding Information: The author is thankful for support by the Israel Science Foundation (grant 616/13) and by the Hebrew University’s Cyber-security Center (grant 039-9230).
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Bitcoin, a protocol for a new permissionless decentralized digital currency hailed the arrival of a new application domain for computer science. Following Bitcoin's arrival, a series of innovations derived from the state of the art in several fields has been applied to cryptocurrencies, and has been slowly reshaping monetary and financial instruments on public distributed ledgers. It was soon clear however that Bitcoin and similar cryptocurrencies still require additional improvements. This challenging domain presents researchers in the field with new and exciting questions. I provide examples from two main research threads, related to the scalability of the protocol and to its underlying incentives.
AB - Bitcoin, a protocol for a new permissionless decentralized digital currency hailed the arrival of a new application domain for computer science. Following Bitcoin's arrival, a series of innovations derived from the state of the art in several fields has been applied to cryptocurrencies, and has been slowly reshaping monetary and financial instruments on public distributed ledgers. It was soon clear however that Bitcoin and similar cryptocurrencies still require additional improvements. This challenging domain presents researchers in the field with new and exciting questions. I provide examples from two main research threads, related to the scalability of the protocol and to its underlying incentives.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85031939720&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.24963/ijcai.2017/742
DO - 10.24963/ijcai.2017/742
M3 - منشور من مؤتمر
T3 - IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
SP - 5161
EP - 5165
BT - 26th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2017
A2 - Sierra, Carles
T2 - 26th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2017
Y2 - 19 August 2017 through 25 August 2017
ER -