Towards fairness and decentralisation in modern cryptocurrencies
Carr, Christopher Alan (2019) Towards fairness and decentralisation in modern cryptocurrencies. PhD thesis, Queensland University of Technology.
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Christopher Alan Carr Thesis
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The thesis examines and improves upon the properties of both fairness and decentralisation in modern cryptocurrencies, re-examining public key infrastructure, client puzzles and useful proofs of work in the blockchain context. The thesis also develops a framework construction for a novel directed-acyclic-graph-based cryptocurrency scheme. This framework represents a major result, being both the first academic and practically realisable proposal for using directed acyclic graphs in decentralised cryptocurrencies.
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| ID Code: | 130876 |
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| Item Type: | QUT Thesis (PhD) |
| Supervisor: | Boyen, Xavier & McKague, Matthew |
| Keywords: | Blockchain, Decentralisation, Fairness, Cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin, Directed Graphs, Cryptography, Client Puzzles, Proof of work |
| DOI: | 10.5204/thesis.eprints.130876 |
| Divisions: | Past > QUT Faculties & Divisions > Science & Engineering Faculty Past > Schools > School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science |
| Institution: | Queensland University of Technology |
| Deposited On: | 24 Jul 2019 02:25 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Jan 2025 14:54 |
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