no code implementations • 27 Mar 2020 • George Kappos, Haaroon Yousaf, Ania Piotrowska, Sanket Kanjalkar, Sergi Delgado-Segura, Andrew Miller, Sarah Meiklejohn
Payment channel networks, and the Lightning Network in particular, seem to offer a solution to the lack of scalability and privacy offered by Bitcoin and other blockchain-based cryptocurrencies.
Cryptography and Security
1 code implementation • 30 Oct 2018 • Haaroon Yousaf, George Kappos, Sarah Meiklejohn
One of the defining features of a cryptocurrency is that its ledger, containing all transactions that have evertaken place, is globally visible.
Cryptography and Security
3 code implementations • 8 May 2018 • George Kappos, Haaroon Yousaf, Mary Maller, Sarah Meiklejohn
Among the now numerous alternative cryptocurrencies derived from Bitcoin, Zcash is often touted as the one with the strongest anonymity guarantees, due to its basis in well-regarded cryptographic research.
Cryptography and Security