A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Shard-Based Permissionless Blockchains

Low transaction throughput and poor scalability are significant issues in public blockchain consensus protocols, such as Bitcoins. Recent research efforts in this direction have proposed shard-based consensus protocols where the key idea is to split the transactions among multiple committees (or sha...

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Main Authors: Mohammad Hossein Manshaei, Murtuza Jadliwala, Anindya Maiti, Mahdi Fooladgar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2018-01-01
Series:IEEE Access
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8558531/