Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Survey Paper

[Daniel Kraft <d@domob.eu>]

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Hi Florian!

On 2015-05-26 15:54, Florian Tschorsch wrote:
> some time ago, we became interested in Bitcoin, but gathering relevant
> work and getting an overview was kind of painful. We took it as a sign
> that a survey paper on Bitcoin is desperately needed.
> 
> Since then we observed the activities of the Bitcoin community. Recently
> we finished a technical report that is our attempt to contribute the
> lacking Bitcoin survey. Maybe it will be of interest to some of you:
> https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/464

Thanks for the work you (and your collegue) put into this paper!  It is
definitely a good step in the right direction!

> Feedback is highly appreciated and would help to improve the quality of
> future revisions.

Do you know [1]?  I've only glanced at both papers, but it seems that's
also a research paper about Bitcoin & co.

  [1] http://www.jbonneau.com/doc/BMCNKF15-IEEESP-bitcoin.pdf

Apart from that, let me advertise myself a little bit. ;)  In case you
are interested in the difficulty mechanism (which you only mention
briefly), I've recently written about it [2] (official publication) [3]
(preprint without paywall).

  [2] http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12083-015-0347-x
  [3] http://www.domob.eu/research/DifficultyControl.pdf

Good luck with your further research!

Yours,
Daniel

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