[HTML][HTML] Research and applied perspective to blockchain technology: A comprehensive survey

S Johar, N Ahmad, W Asher, H Cruickshank… - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Blockchain being a leading technology in the 21st century is revolutionizing each sector of
life. Services are being provided and upgraded using its salient features and fruitful …

[HTML][HTML] Bitcoin and its energy, environmental, and social impacts: An assessment of key research needs in the mining sector

MA Rudd, L Bratcher, S Collins, D Branscum, M Carson… - Challenges, 2023 - mdpi.com
In this study, we used a combination of AI-assisted analysis of social media discourse and
collaboration with industry experts to delve into the key research needs associated with the …

Direct evidence of bitcoin wash trading

A Aloosh, J Li - Management Science, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
We use the internal trading records of a major Bitcoin exchange leaked by hackers to detect
and characterize wash trading—a type of market manipulation in which a single trader …

Staking pools on blockchains

H Gersbach, A Mamageishvili, M Schneider - ar** attack in blockchain
H Shi, S Wang, Q Hu, X Cheng… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The pool-hop** attack casts down the expected profits of both the mining pool and honest
miners in Blockchain. The mainstream countermeasures, namely PPS (pay-per-share) and …

Don't trust, verify: The case of slashing from a popular ethereum explorer

Z He, J Li, Z Wu - Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Blockchain explorers are important tools for quick look-ups of on-chain activities. However,
as centralized data providers, their reliability remains under-studied. As a case study, we …

Bitcoin transaction fees and the decentralization of Bitcoin mining pools

Z Li, J Li, K Zhou - Finance Research Letters, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, we propose a novel mechanism for decentralizing Bitcoin mining pools: the
uncertain mining reward resulting from Bitcoin transaction fees. We present a simple model …

LedgerHedger: Gas Reservation for Smart Contract Security

I Tsabary, A Manuskin, R Bar-Zur, I Eyal - International Conference on …, 2024 - Springer
In smart contract blockchain platforms such as Ethereum, users interact with the system by
issuing transactions. System operators called miners or validators add those transactions to …

Smart contract-based decentralized mining pools for Proof-of-Work blockchains

AM Papathanasiou, CDN Kyriakidou… - 2024 IEEE …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mining pools have gained wide attention allowing in-dividual miners, who contribute their
computational resources to collectively mine blocks to be rewarded more predictably …

A core-based quota allocation model for the Bitcoin-refunded Blockchain network

E Bolonhez, T Silva, B Fanzeres - Expert Systems with Applications, 2022 - Elsevier
Bitcoin operates in a Blockchain network under which a group of participants are
responsible for adding new blocks to the chain. The participants are called miners and the …