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Bitcoin-NG: A Scalable Blockchain Protocol

Separate the rare proof-of-work election from the frequent publication of transactions. Key blocks choose a leader. That leader's microblocks carry the transactions until the next key block.

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Authors
Ittay Eyal, Adem Ercan Gencer, Emin Gün Sirer and Robbert van Renesse
Date
2016
Publisher
Ittay Eyal, Adem Ercan Gencer, Emin Gün Sirer and Robbert van Renesse
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BLC-STUDY-0061
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Separate the rare proof-of-work election from the frequent publication of transactions. Key blocks choose a leader. That leader's microblocks carry the transactions until the next key block.

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Eyal, I., Gencer, A. E., Sirer, E. G., & Renesse, R. V. (2016). Bitcoin-NG: A Scalable Blockchain Protocol. Ittay Eyal, Adem Ercan Gencer, Emin Gün Sirer and Robbert van Renesse. https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.02037

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@techreport{bitcoinng2016,
  title = {Bitcoin-NG: A Scalable Blockchain Protocol},
  author = {Ittay Eyal, Adem Ercan Gencer, Emin Gün Sirer and Robbert van Renesse},
  year = {2016},
  institution = {Ittay Eyal, Adem Ercan Gencer, Emin Gün Sirer and Robbert van Renesse},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.02037},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/bitcoin-ng}
}

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AU  - Emin Gün Sirer
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UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.02037
N1  - Rights status: Official external source only
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