*Spendid* work Andrew (and all the other authors). Well done. This is a timely paper that deserves significantly wider circulation and comment. FWIW, Joichi Ito, from the MIT media Lab, made reference to your work during yesterday's MIT Bitcoin Expo [@ 2:46:54] p. On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 11:28 PM, Mike Hearn wrote: > Nice, Andrew. > > Just one minor point. SPV clients do not need to maintain an ever growing > list of PoW solutions. BitcoinJ uses a ring buffer with 5000 headers and > thus has O(1) disk usage. Re-orgs past the event horizon cannot be > processed but are assumed to be sufficiently rare that manual intervention > would be acceptable. > > On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 8:48 AM, Andrew Miller wrote: > >> We (Joseph Bonneau, myself Arvind Narayanan, Jeremy Clark, Ed Felten, >> Josh Kroll -- from Stanford, Maryland, Concordia, Princeton) have >> written a “systemization” paper about Bitcoin-related research. It’s >> going to appear in the Oakland security conference later this year >> (IEEE Security and Privacy) but we wanted to announce a draft to this >> community ahead of time. >> >> http://www.jbonneau.com/doc/BMCNKF15-IEEESP-bitcoin.pdf >> >> One of the main goals of our work is to build a bridge between the >> computer science research community and the cryptocurrency community. >> Many of the most interesting ideas and proposals for Bitcoin come from >> this mailing list and forums/wikis/irc channels, where many academic >> researchers simply don’t know to look! In fact, we started out by >> scraping all the interesting posts/articles we could find and trying >> to figure out how we could organize them. We hope our paper helps some >> of the best ideas and research questions from the Bitcoin community >> bubble up and inspires researchers to build on them. >> >> We didn’t limit our scope to Bitcoin, but we also decided not to >> provide a complete survey of altcoins and other next-generation >> cryptocurrency designs. Instead, we tried to explain all the >> dimensions along which these designs differ from Bitcoin. >> >> This effort has roughly been in progress over two years, though it >> stopped and restarted several times along the way. >> >> If anyone has comments or suggestions, we still have a week before the >> final version is due, and regardless we plan to continue updating our >> online version for the forseeable future. >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, >> sponsored >> by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub >> for all >> things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership >> blogs to >> news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the >> conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Bitcoin-development mailing list >> Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development >> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, > sponsored > by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for > all > things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs > to > news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the > conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ > _______________________________________________ > Bitcoin-development mailing list > Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development > >