Improving Bitcoin Transaction Propagation by Leveraging Unreachable Nodes
| Autor: | Vanesa Daza, Federico Franzoni |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
FOS: Computer and information sciences Cryptocurrency Computer Science - Cryptography and Security business.industry Transaction processing Computer science Computer Science - Networking and Internet Architecture Robustness (computer science) Peer to peer computing Data Protection Act 1998 business Communications protocol Cryptography and Security (cs.CR) Database transaction Computer network |
| Zdroj: | Blockchain |
| Popis: | The Bitcoin P2P network is at the core of all communications between clients. The reachable part of this network has been explored and analyzed by numerous studies. Unreachable nodes, however, are, in most part, overlooked. Nonetheless, they are a relevant part of the network and play an essential role in the propagation of messages. In this paper, we focus on transaction propagation and show that increasing the participation of unreachable nodes can potentially improve the robustness and efficiency of the network. In order to do that, we propose a few changes to the network protocol. Additionally, we design a novel transaction propagation protocol that explicitly involves unreachable nodes to provide better protection against deanonymization attacks. Our solutions are simple to implement and can effectively bring immediate benefits to the Bitcoin network. 16 pages, 1 figure, Published in "IEEE Blockchain 2020" conference |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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