Bitter to better – how to make Bitcoin a better currency
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2012 Feb 27 - Mar 2. Bonaire
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Simon Barber
Xavier Boyen
Elaine Shi
Ersin Uzun
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Bitter to better – how to make Bitcoin a better currency
Bitcoin is a distributed digital currency which has attracted a substantial number of users. We perform an in-depth investigation to understand what made Bitcoin so successful, while decades of research on cryptographic e-cash has not lead to a large-scale deployment. We ask also how Bitcoin could become a good candidate for a long-lived stable currency. In doing so, we identify several issues and attacks of Bitcoin, and we propose novel techniques to address them.
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