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Secure Distributed Systems Over Satoshi Blockchains, Ruben Recabarren Velarde
Secure Distributed Systems Over Satoshi Blockchains, Ruben Recabarren Velarde
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs) have become an important driving force towards the creation of novel distributed applications aimed at solving problems that range from digital currency tools to self governing digital democracy systems.
Our thesis is that Satoshi cryptocurrencies, i.e., Bitcoin and its variants, can be used to endow several popular distributed services with strong privacy, anonymity and censorship resistance properties that evade current solutions.
To this end, we first study the design of Satoshi cryptocurrency mining protocols, and discover and document privacy and integrity vulnerabilities of Stratum, the de-facto pooled mining protocol.
We have developed tools that exploit these …