Consensus Crash Testing: Exploring Ripple’s Decentralization Degree in Adversarial Environments

The inception of Bitcoin as a peer-to-peer payment system, and its underlying blockchain data-structure and protocol, has led to an increased interest in deploying scalable and reliable distributed-<i>ledger</i> systems that build on robust consensus protocols. A critical requirement of...

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Main Authors: Klitos Christodoulou, Elias Iosif, Antonios Inglezakis, Marinos Themistocleous
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-03-01
Series:Future Internet
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/12/3/53