Zhao, B., & Huang, X. (2020). Encrypted monument: The birth of crypto place on the blockchain. Geoforum, 116, 149–152. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.08.011 Zhao and Huang (2020) are...
Many cypherpunk activists claim Bitcoin as their own (Golumbia, 2016). In their analysis, the authors take the crypto anarchy and concept of virtual communities promoted by Tim May and integrate...
Abstract This paper presents preliminary research into the BTC Lightning Network. By modelling transaction reuse and mapping the reuse of aligned addresses as Lightning channels are opened and...
In examining the literature surrounding the perception of blockchain technology as businesses understand it, multiple problems can be discerned. For instance, Falcone et al. (2021) have sought to...
The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) of the internet has functioned for decades. It was originally constructed using the statements by Postel of how the protocol should be constructed in 1981...
I have looked at a number of papers where the authors are investigating or starting to question the concept of decentralisation. Unfortunately, unlike Walch, who I have mentioned previously, the...
Simplified payment verification (SPV) was first discussed in the Bitcoin white paper (Wright, 2008), and was taken up by other authors, such as Palai et al. (2018). Such authors present a method...
De Filippi et al. (2022) created a seemingly well-argued academic research paper focused on the means by which distributed blockchain-based networks could act outside of national rules and might...
Measuring the distance between nodes has been considered complex (Chen et al., 2020) and liable to error or listed computational processing. Because of the problems with measuring networks, some...
The concept of a ‘rollback’ attack is referenced when it comes to blockchain solutions and attacks or changes to the system. In addition, the concept of decentralisation is touted as a solution to...