ABSTRACTRecently, cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc, have rapidly been recognized as an asset, often called a digital asset. Comparing to the real assets, it would be handled carefully due to its own characteristics that are completely different. The disadvantage of such digital assets, on the one hand, is that whoever knows the private key of the wallet, they can easily take over that digital asset. On the other hand, if the wallet’s owners are dead without passing credential information to others, that asset will be lost forever. We thus propose the novel secure testament methodology for a digital asset such as Bitcoin to solve the mentioned problems. The mechanism is based on managing the mnemonic seed of the wallet so that an inheritor will obtain the mnemonic seed in a secure way. Two mechanisms of the proposed methodology are implemented. The first is to save the mnemonic seed in a secure repository. Therefore, no one can access to the cryptocurrency wallet while the owner still being alive and does not wish anybody to access. The second is to deliver the mnemonic seed securely to legitimate inheritor when the owner is suspected to be dead or disappeared. Finally, based on our experiment, the results show that the aforementioned problems can be solved. Furthermore, the proposed mechanism can help the owner of the asset to managing the confidentiality of their assets. 相似文献
The decentralized cryptocurrency which was based on block chain has been thought the most successful one in history.In the system,public keys were used as the users’ accounts which guaranteed the anonymity in real transactions.However,all the transaction information was recorded in the block chain,it was a potential threat for users’ privacy which might leak the payment information.Moreover,to avoid double-spending,it was agreed that the transaction on the target block was valid only if another k blocks were generated after the target one.The long waiting time reduced the efficiency of the payment system.A model of payment system based on a proxy-cryptocurrency was proposed,and a solution based on blind signature techniques was proposed.The scheme introduced a proxy in the payment phase,by which transaction confirmation time could be reduced and the transaction efficiency could be improved.Meanwhile,the system implements better anonymity,namely as the privacy protection function. 相似文献
The birth of blockchain has promoted the development of electronic currencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. Blockchain builds a financial system based on cryptology instead of credit, which allows parties to complete the transaction on their own without the need for credible third-party intermediaries. So far, the application scenario of blockchain is mainly confined to the peer-to-peer electronic financial system, which obviously does not fully utilize the potential of blockchain.
In this paper, we introduce GaiaWorld, a new system for decentralized application. To solve the problem of resource waste and mismatch between nodes and computing power in traditional PoW mechanism, GaiaWorld introduces a new consensus mechanism called CPoS, which can improve productivity and liquidity of blockchain system. GaiaWorld constructs a new architecture based on forging committee and forging group systems, which can establish a decentralized, free and stable internet trust system, and can be utilized in multiple application scenarios and construct efficient and reliable content delivery systems. 相似文献
Cryptocurrency, as a typical application scene of blockchain, has attracted broad interests from both industrial and academic communities. With its rapid development, the cryptocurrency transaction network embedding (CTNE) has become a hot topic. It embeds transaction nodes into low-dimensional feature space while effectively maintaining a network structure, thereby discovering desired patterns demonstrating involved users’ normal and abnormal behaviors. Based on a wide investigation into the state-of-the-art CTNE, this survey has made the following efforts: 1) categorizing recent progress of CTNE methods, 2) summarizing the publicly available cryptocurrency transaction network datasets, 3) evaluating several widely-adopted methods to show their performance in several typical evaluation protocols, and 4) discussing the future trends of CTNE. By doing so, it strives to provide a systematic and comprehensive overview of existing CTNE methods from static to dynamic perspectives, thereby promoting further research into this emerging and important field. 相似文献
While Bitcoin gains increasing popularity in different payment scenarios, the transaction fees make it difficult to be applied to micropayment. Given the wide applicability of micropayment, it is crucial for all cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin to provide effective support therein. In light of this, a number of low-cost micropayment schemes for Bitcoin have been proposed recently to reduce micropayment costs. Existing schemes, however, suffer from drawbacks such as high computation cost, inflexible payment value, and possibly unfair exchanges. The paper proposes two new micropayment schemes, namely the basic MicroBTC and the advanced MicroBTC, for Bitcoin by integrating the hash chain technique into cryptocurrency transactions. The basic MicroBTC realizes micropayment by exposing hash pre-images on the hash chain one by one, and it can also make arbitrary micropayments by exposing multiple hash pre-images. We further design the advanced MicroBTC to achieve non-interactive refund and efficient hash chain verification. We analyze the complexity and security of the both MicroBTC schemes and implement them using the Bitcoin source code. Extensive experiments were conducted to validate their performance, and the result showed that a micropayment session can be processed within about 18ms for the basic MicroBTC and 9ms for the advanced MicroBTC on a laptop. Both schemes enjoy great efficiency in computation and flexibility in micropayments, and they also achieve fairness for both the payer and the payee.
Blockchains were developed as a technology used for transactions of Bitcoins (cryptocurrency). Blockchains have several features such as decentralized transaction without third parties, tolerance network, prevention of data manipulation, and operational cost reduction. This technology is gaining attention in the world, and by adding extensions, improvements, or new technologies, it is expected to be used not only in cryptocurrency and fintech but also in the power and energy system field. This technical note explains the outline of the blockchain technology and its application to the field of power and energy system. 相似文献