A Cooperative Proof of Work Scheme for Distributed Consensus Protocols
Abstract
We propose a refinement to the well known, and widely used, proof-of-work scheme of zeroing a cryptographic hash. Our refinement allows multiple autonomous users to cooperate on the proof-of-work for their own transactions in order to bring about consensus on the order of said transactions.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- November 2017
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1711.11150
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1711.11150
- Bibcode:
- 2017arXiv171111150K
- Keywords:
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- Computer Science - Data Structures and Algorithms;
- Computer Science - Cryptography and Security