[Bitcoin-development] New paper: Research Perspectives and Challenges for Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies

2015-03-02 Thread Andrew Miller
We (Joseph Bonneau, myself Arvind Narayanan, Jeremy Clark, Ed Felten, Josh Kroll -- from Stanford, Maryland, Concordia, Princeton) have written a “systemization” paper about Bitcoin-related research. It’s going to appear in the Oakland security conference later this year (IEEE Security and Privacy)

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Ultimate Blockchain Compression w/ trust-free lite node

2012-06-19 Thread Andrew Miller
is triggering your intuition to desire this! I am indeed assuming that the tree will be incrementally constructed according to the canonical (blockchain) ordering of transactions, and that the balancing rules are agreed on as part of the

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Ultimate Blockchain Compression w/ trust-free lite node

2012-06-19 Thread Andrew Miller
roceedings/sec98/full_papers/nissim/nissim.pdf [2] A General Model for Authenticated Data Structures Martel, Nuckolls, Devanbu, Michael Gertz, Kwong, Stubblebine. 2004 http://truthsayer.cs.ucdavis.edu/algorithmica.pdf -- Andrew Miller