[Cryptography] A quicker block chain? ... Thunderella

[Tom Mitchell]

This is interesting for blockchain transactions reducing transaction time
from bitcoin's 10 mi to less than a second.   The crypto anchor is PGP.
There seems to be value with and without proof of work models.

Thunderella: Blockchains with Optimistic Instant Confirmation - Elaine Shi
BPASE '18, January 24-26th 2018, Stanford University

https://youtu.be/sGuw_M7qsbY


Thunderella: Blockchains with Optimistic Instant Confirmation - BPASE '18

https://youtu.be/sGuw_M7qsbY


Three papers:
The Sleepy Model of Consensus

https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/918.pdf


Thunderella: Blockchains with Optimistic Instant Confirmation

https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/913.pdf


Snow White: Robustly Reconfigurable Consensus and Applications to
Provably Secure Proofs of Stake

https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/919.pdf


There is a startup:

http://www.thundertoken.com/


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