Questions tagged [academic-research]
Dealing with scientific research, papers, publications, books, theories, laws and the scientific method related to Bitcoin and other crypto-currencies.
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Reverse-engineering Bitcoin to a formal specification
Is there any attempt/project to reverse-engineer Bitcoin's reference implementation, not to an informal description (I have found those), rather to a formal specification?
I have tried searching but ...
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On Scaling Decentralized Blockchains Paper: How is transaction/sec calculated?
I'm currently reading this paper on the scalability of Bitcoin and I'm struggling to understand some of the calculations.
On page 6 they calculate the 90% effective throughput, meaning the speed at ...
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Where can I learn about open research topics in Bitcoin?
I am currently doing my Master's Thesis, and I really want it to be about blockchain technology, and specifically Bitcoin. I was wondering if anyone here has any ideas on improvements or further ...
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Is Bitcoin considered mobile money (formal definition)?
I'm using an IMF data set that includes mobile money variables along with a data set of cryptocurrency use. I found the mobile money variables to be highly correlated with the cryptocurrency use data. ...
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What does it mean to make mining more difficult? [duplicate]
Really I don't know nothing about bitcoin but now I got curious read something and immediately come to something on mind.
I mean, there's a social economic comunity somewhere generating value based on ...
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Bitcoin data by country?
I am a political science graduate student looking to do research on bitcoin and cryptocurrency. To do so, however, I need data. While many datasets provide wonderful histories of bitcoin price and ...
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What prior work influenced the design of the Bitcoin instruction set?
The "Script" system used by Bitcoin transactions is commonly described as a Forth-like, stack-based language.
What prior work influenced the design and layout of the Script instruction set?
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Are there any academic papers on the link between energy markets and Bitcoin mining?
I am keen to see if there have been any academic papers that have studied the link between bitcoin miners and energy markets, in-particular, if there is a so called 'no-arbitrage' requirement, or a ...
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Where can I find a survey on different fee estimation algorithms?
I am looking for a comparison or summary of different fee estimation algorithms. Does anyone know of one? I would like to see what the best starting point is in order to see where optimization can be ...
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What would be an example for an insertion into the blockchain?
I'm reading the paper The Bitcoin Backbone Protocol:
Analysis and Applications. On page 21, definition 8 reads:
An insertion occurs when, given a chain C with two consecutive
blocks B and B, a block ...
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How does one prove total turingness of the bitcoin script using the Ackermann Functions?
In this Medium Article (https://medium.com/@craig_10243/bitcoin-a-total-turing-machine-5a6c3c68f5a7#_ftn2), C. Wright states:
"...It is known that all primitive recursive functions are total and ...
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What is the fastest way to research Bitcoin block chain?
I would like to do some research of the Bitcoin blockchain. Because i would like to do massive amounts of processing and lookups, I need a fast way to search the blockchain.
Http requests to insight....
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Wouldn't it be profitable to make an ASIC capable of calculating private keys?
Just looking at vanitygen-plus (currently supporting almost one-hundred crypto-currencies) do its stuff, and it is capable of over 548,990 keys/sec on my CPU alone.
Well developed ASIC is several ...
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Current blockchain hot topics in research
I'm looking for a research project for my master thesis in software engineering and computer science and i'm willing to research the blockchain technology. What are the current open issues and/or hot ...
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Double spending on testnet or regtest?
I'm currently doing a research on bitcoin and I would like to know if there is anyway to replicate double spending in the testnet or regtest? If isn't possible is there any other type of "attacks" ...
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