Hardening Stratum, the Bitcoin Pool Mining Protocol
Stratum, the de-facto mining communication protocol used by blockchain based cryptocurrency systems, enables miners to reliably and efficiently fetch jobs from mining pool servers. In this paper we exploit Stratum’s lack of encryption to develop passive and active attacks on Bitcoin’s mining protoco...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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2017-07-01
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| Series: | Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/popets-2017-0028 |