Coalition Formation Game for Cost-Efficient Multiparty Payment Channel in Payment Channel Networks
Sensors, 2023 Blockchain has introduced a new era for online payment services and its economy with tamper-proof cryptocurrencies. However, blockchain, which is based on global peer-to-peer networks, has its limitations due to payment delays from global consensus and ...
Wooseong Kim
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Geolocated Lightning Network topology snapshots: A dataset covering 2019–2023 [PDF]
Scientific DataThe Lightning Network (LN) is the most widely adopted second-layer solution for Bitcoin, enabling fast, low-cost transactions through a decentralized payment channel network.
Danila Valko, Jorge Marx Gómez
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PaySwitch: Smart Contract-Based Payment Switch for Off-Chain Payment Channel Networks
IEEE AccessPayment channel networks (PCNs) are a viable solution to the issue of blockchain scalability by offering off-chain transactions between two untrusted peers, without committing each transaction to the blockchain.
Anan Jin +4 more
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A novel framework for secure cryptocurrency transactions using quantum crypto guard [PDF]
PeerJ Computer ScienceIn today’s digital world, cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin can secure transactions without banks. However, the rise of quantum computing poses significant threats to their security, as traditional cryptographic methods may be easily compromised. In addition,
Jamil Abedalrahim Jamil Alsayaydeh +4 more
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CLoTH: A Lightning Network Simulator
SoftwareX, 2021 Payment-channel networks are one of the most promising solution to the well-known issue of blockchain scalability. In this work we present CLoTH, a simulator of the Lightning Network — the mainstream payment-channel network, used in Bitcoin.
Marco Conoscenti +2 more
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Research on Multiparty Payment Technology Based on Blockchain and Smart Contract Mechanism
Journal of Mathematics, 2022 As a peer-to-peer “P2P” distributed ledger, the blockchain has the advantages of decentralization, no trust, open autonomy, and nontampering. Therefore, many users are willing to conduct transactions in blockchain cryptocurrency systems such as Bitcoin ...
Yanjun Zhang
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LEAF: Let’s Efficiently Make Adaptive Forwarding in Payment Channel Networks
IEEE Access, 2023 Blockchain technology is widely applicable to modern payment systems but has inherent throughput limitations. Off-chain networks are proposed to solve scalability issues, which allows parties to efficiently perform micropayments without committing all of
Xiaofei Luo, Peng Li
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CryptoMaze: Atomic Off-Chain Payments in Payment Channel Network [PDF]
, 2020 Payment protocols developed to realize off-chain transactions in Payment channel network (PCN) assumes the underlying routing algorithm transfers the payment via a single path. However, a path may not have sufficient capacity to route a transaction.
Mazumdar, Subhra, Ruj, Sushmita
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Efficient routing strategy of blockchain-based payment channel network
Tongxin xuebao, 2021 In order to solve the problems of the low transaction success rate and network imbalance of the payment channel network, an efficient routing strategy of blockchain-based payment channel network was proposed.This strategy established a dedicated payment ...
Ru HUO +6 more
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Scalable funding of Bitcoin micropayment channel networks [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2018 The Bitcoin network has scalability problems. To increase its transaction rate and speed, micropayment channel networks have been proposed; however, these require to lock funds into specific channels.
Conrad Burchert +2 more
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