Parasite Chain Detection in the IOTA Protocol

• Published in: arXiv.org
• Main Authors: Penzkofer, Andreas, Kusmierz, Bartosz, Capossele, Angelo, Sanders, William, Saa, Olivia
• Format: Paper
• Language: English
• Published: Ithaca Cornell University Library, arXiv.org 28.04.2020
• Subjects: Complexity; Cryptography; Digital currencies; Graph theory; Parasites; Security

In recent years several distributed ledger technologies based on directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) have appeared on the market. Similar to blockchain technologies, DAG-based systems aim to build an immutable ledger and are faced with security concerns regarding the irreversibility of the ledger state....