A Survey on Long-Range Attacks for Proof of Stake Protocols

Despite common arguments about the prevalence of blockchain technology, in terms of security, privacy, and immutability, in reality, several attacks can be launched against them. This paper provides a systematic literature review on long-range attacks for proof of stake protocols. If successful, the...

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Main Authors: Evangelos Deirmentzoglou, Georgios Papakyriakopoulos, Constantinos Patsakis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2019-01-01
Series:IEEE Access
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8653269/