Analyzing Reward Dynamics and Decentralization in Ethereum 2.0: An Advanced Data Engineering Workflow and Comprehensive Datasets for Proof-of-Stake Incentives

1 code implementation • 17 Feb 2024 • Tao Yan, Shengnan Li, Benjamin Kraner, Luyao Zhang, Claudio J. Tessone

Ethereum 2. 0, as the preeminent smart contract blockchain platform, guarantees the precise execution of applications without third-party intervention.

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Exploring the Bitcoin Mesoscale

no code implementations • 13 Jul 2023 • Nicolò Vallarano, Tiziano Squartini, Claudio J. Tessone

The open availability of the entire history of the Bitcoin transactions opens up the possibility to study this system at an unprecedented level of detail.

MicroVelocity: rethinking the Velocity of Money for digital currencies

no code implementations • 31 Jan 2022 • Carlo Campajola, Marco D'Errico, Claudio J. Tessone

We propose a novel framework to analyse the velocity of money in terms of the contribution (MicroVelocity) of each individual agent, and to uncover the distributional determinants of aggregate velocity.

Lightning Network: a second path towards centralisation of the Bitcoin economy

1 code implementation • 7 Feb 2020 • Jian-Hong Lin, Kevin Primicerio, Tiziano Squartini, Christian Decker, Claudio J. Tessone

The Bitcoin Lightning Network (BLN), a so-called "second layer" payment protocol, was launched in 2018 to scale up the number of transactions between Bitcoin owners.

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