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Sidechains

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Enabling Blockchain Innovations with Pegged Sidechains
A. Back, M. Corallo, L. Dashjr, M. Friedenbach, G. Maxwell, A. Miller, A. Poelstra, J. Timón, and P. Wuille. 2014.
Liquid: A Bitcoin Sidechain
J. Nick, A. Poelstra, G. Sanders. 2020.

Privacy

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Introduction to Security and Privacy on the Blockchain
H. Halpin and M. Piekarska. EuroS&P 2017 - 2nd IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy, Workshops, Apr 2017, Paris, France. IEEE, Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW), 2017 IEEE European Symposium on, pp.1-3, 2017, ff10.1109/EuroSPW.2017.43ff. ffhal-01673293f

Digital Signatures

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Bitcoin Transaction Malleability and MtGox
C. Decker and R. Wattenhofer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, 2014.
Efficient Accountable Multisignatures
Andrew Poelstra. 2015.
Simple Schnorr multi-signatures with applications to Bitcoin
G. Maxwell, A. Poelstra, Y. Seurin, and P. Wuille. 2018.
MuSig-DN: Schnorr Multi-Signatures with Verifiably Deterministic Nonces
J. Nick, T. Ruffing, Y. Seurin, and P. Wuille. 2020.

Scripting

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Enhancing Bitcoin Transactions with Covenants
R. O’Connor and M. Piekarska. 2017.
Simplicity - A New Language for Blockchains
Russell O’Connor. 2017.

Micropayments

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A Fast and Scalable Payment Network with Bitcoin Duplex Micropayment Channels
C. Decker and R. Wattenhofer. Distributed Computing Group, ETH Zurich, 2015.
Scalable funding of Bitcoin micropayment channel networks
C. Burchert, C. Decker, and R. Wattenhofer. 2018.
eltoo - A Simple Layer 2 Protocol for Bitcoin
C. Decker and R. Russell. 2018.

Bitcoin Bandwidth

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Bandwidth-Efficient Transaction Relay in Bitcoin
Pieter Wuille. 2019.
Erlay - Efficient Transaction Relay for Bitcoin
G. Naumenko, G. Maxwell, P. Wuille, S. Fedorova, and I. Beschastnikh. 2019.

Bitcoin Payments

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Have a snack, pay with Bitcoins
T. Bamert, C. Decker, L. Elsen, R. Wattenhofer, and S. Welten. 2013.

Confidential Transactions

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Borromean Ring Signatures
A. Poelstra and G. Maxwell. 2015.
Bulletproofs - Efficient Range Proofs for Confidential Transactions
A. Poelstra, P. Wuille, and G. Maxwell. 2017.
Bulletproofs - Short Proofs for Confidential Transactions and More
B. Bunz, J. Bootle, D. Boneh, A. Poelstra, P. Wuille, and G. Maxwell. 2017.
Confidential Assets
A. Poelstra, A. Back, M. Friedenbach, G. Maxwell, and P. Wuille. 2018.

Consensus

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Information propagation in the Bitcoin network
C. Decker and R. Wattenhofer. 2013.
On Stake and Consensus
Andrew Poelstra. 2015.
Bitcoin meets strong consistency
C. Decker, J. Seidel, and R. Wattenhofer. Distributed Computing Group, ETH Zurich, 2015.
On Scaling Decentralized Blockchains
K. Croman, C. Decker, I. Eyal, A. Efe Gencer, A. Juels, A. Kosba, A. Miller, P. Saxena, E. Shi, E. Gun Sirer, D. Song, and R. Wattenhofer. 2016.

Mining Decentralization

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ASICs and Decentralization FAQ
Andrew Poelstra. 2015.

Altcoins

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Distributed Consensus from Proof of Stake is Impossible
A. Poelstra. 2014.
A Treatise on Altcoins
A. Poelstra. 2014.

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