SPECTRE: Serialization of Proof-of-Work Events, Confirming Transactions via Recursive Elections.

Flood & Loot: A Systemic Attack On The Lightning Network

The Cryptocurrency Filter-Bubble

How the Cryptocurrency Community Interacts on Twitter

Congestion Attacks in Payment Channel Networks

By Ayelet Mizrahi and Aviv Zohar

Rethinking Bitcoin’s Fee Market

How Mechanism Design and Auction Theory Can Improve Bitcoin’s…

Bitcoin's Regulation: Why is it so difficult?

By Tamar Berenblum and Aviv Zohar. A tale of our sudden unexpected Bitcoin wealth and the ensuing beaurocratic mess we had to resolve in…

Your ASIC is Probably Mispriced

We show that ASICs used for mining should be treated as a bundle of…

Responsible Disclosure in Cryptocurrencies

Ethical dilemmas and economic problems surrounding the disclosure of vulnerabilities…

Bitcoin has its own obscure terminology and inside jokes — nearly impenetrable to outsiders. The short story below is just the result of playing around with the terminology (probably due to some stories by Etgar Keret lingering on my mind). Whatever you do, don’t take it too seriously.

The Contract