Designing a Privacy-Preserving Rebalancing Algorithm for Payment Channel Networks

In the past 8 years, Bitcoin has dominated the cryptocurrency markets and drawn attention from academia, developers and legislators alike. Bitcoin has been praised for its impact on decentralizing trust and currencies but also criticized for its volatility and energy-inefficient consensus mechanism. To improve its limitations, in 2016, payment...

Splitting Payments to Increase Blockchain Effectiveness

Blockchain technology is the underlying mechanism that many cryptocurrencies operate on. It relies on cryptographic techniques that enforce integrity on transaction records. The records (blocks) stored are limited in size and frequency. One well-known issue regarding blockchain technology is the lack of scalability. In order to mitigate this...