no code implementations • 10 Nov 2017 • Shehar Bano, Alberto Sonnino, Mustafa Al-Bassam, Sarah Azouvi, Patrick McCorry, Sarah Meiklejohn, George Danezis
The blockchain initially gained traction in 2008 as the technology underlying bitcoin, but now has been employed in a diverse range of applications and created a global market worth over $150B as of 2017.
Cryptography and Security
1 code implementation • 19 Feb 2017 • Andrew Miller, Iddo Bentov, Ranjit Kumaresan, Christopher Cordi, Patrick McCorry
Our construction is also modular, making use of a generic abstraction from folklore, called the "state channel," which we are the first to formalize.
Cryptography and Security