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cdecker

Switzerland

http://snyke.net

I'm a PhD student in Computer Science at ETH Zurich doing research on Bitcoin.

Publications

  • Bitcoin meets Strong Consistency
  • Information Propagation in the Bitcoin Network (bibtex)
  • Bitcoin Transaction Malleability and MtGox (bibtex)
  • Have a Snack, Pay with Bitcoins (bibtex)
  • BlueWallet: The secure Bitcoin Wallet (bibtex)
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What is relation between scriptSig and scriptPubKey?
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Is there an advantage to use a Synchronized Method instead of a Synchronized Block?
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How is the network hash rate calculated?
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17
What's the difference between a bitcoin client and wallet?
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What is the longest blockchain fork that has been orphaned to date?
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13
Downloading a Torrent with libtorrent-python
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13
How does Satoshi Dice's 'zero confirmations' transaction system work technically?
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13
Is Lightning Network a risk for Bitcoin security since it reduces miner fees?
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12
Cheating on pooled mining
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11
What is “Script Hash” address exactly and how does it work?
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11
Why does bitcoind say “error: couldn't connect to server” for the first few minutes of boot-up?
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11
Why does gettransaction report me only the receiving address?
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11
Countrywide Internet isolation, inevitable fork
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With 100% segwit transactions, what would be the max number of transaction confirmation possible on a block?
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10
How does Bitcoin figure out what time it is?
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9
Can the number of transactions per second ever overwhelm the network?
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9
Is it possible for the network to stop finding valid blocks?
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9
PUSHDATA4 unnecessary?
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8
Why would increasing the Bitcoin block size lead to a more centralised system?
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8
If a wallet has multiple addresses, is the money in the wallet or in the address?
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8
How to make Bitcoin-Qt client portable? (Windows)
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8
In order to reduce fees, can I 'consolidate' my wallet by sending the entire balance to a new address in the same wallet?
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8
Why does the Bitcoin conversion rate change wildly?
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8
Why would a miner mine with a difficulty other than 'the' difficulty?
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7
Can I addnode to blockchain.info?
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7
How does the bitcoin client determine the first IP address to connect?
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7
How do you know what version number to use?
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7
creating unit tests (semi-)automatically?
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6
Why is it impossible to derive public key from address?
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6
Where is the incentive to update the Merkle root
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