Posts from February 2017

BitFury's Smallest-First Mining Is Bad For Bitcoin

bitcoin mining February 27, 2017 at 10:33 AM Emin Gün Sirer
BitFury has been mining smallest-transactions-first. We argue why this is bad for Bitcoin.

The Greening of Blockchains

bitcoin green February 23, 2017 at 12:23 PM Phil Daian and Ari Juels
Blockchains are beginning to turn green. This post describes some of the IC3 research in this direction.

State of the Bitcoin Network

bitcoin measurement February 15, 2017 at 10:18 AM Adem Efe Gencer and Emin Gün Sirer
We characterize the state of the Bitcoin network as of this year, and discover that it has improved by 70% in terms of bandwidth compared to last year alone.

Miniature World: Measuring and Evaluating Blockchains

blockchain evaluation bitcoin emulation testbed February 10, 2017 at 10:10 AM Adem Efe Gencer and Emin Gün Sirer
Miniature world is an evaluation platform which provides a principled way of evaluating different blockchain proposals.