main.bib

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}

@misc{DionysisVelvet,
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}

@misc{NIPoPoW,
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}

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@misc{Velvet,
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    year = {2018},
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}

@misc{Chainsewing,
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}

@misc{Backbone,
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@misc{PoDL,
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@misc{Etherscan,
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}

@misc{BTCRelay,
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}

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@misc{BitcoinHeader,
    author = {bitcoindeveloper},
    note = {Accessed on 03/06/20},
    url = {https://developer.bitcoin.org/reference/block_chain.html},
    title = {Block Chain}
}

@misc{BitcoinSize,
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}

@misc{Solidity,
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}

@misc{BitcoinTX,
    author = {bitcoindeveloper},
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}

@misc{DAO,
    author = {Michael des Castillo},
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}

@ARTICLE{Survey,
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@misc{SoKDistributed,
    author = {Alexei Zamyatin and Mustafa Al-Bassam and Dionysis Zindros and Eleftherios Kokoris-Kogias and Pedro Moreno-Sanchez and Aggelos Kiayias and William J. Knottenbelt},
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    year = {2019},
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}

@misc{NipoVsFC,
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}

@misc{BTCDifficulty,
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}

@misc{BlockReward,
    author = {CoinMarketCap},
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}

@misc{BitcoinValue,
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}

@misc{VyperSolidity,
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    note = {Accessed on 3/09/20},
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}

@article{BitcoinIllegal,
    author = {Foley, Sean and Karlsen, Jonathan R and Putniņš, Tālis J},
    title = "{Sex, Drugs, and Bitcoin: How Much Illegal Activity Is Financed through Cryptocurrencies?}",
    journal = {The Review of Financial Studies},
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    number = {5},
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    year = {2019},
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}

@misc{BTCAudit,
    author = {Andrew Miller},
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}

@misc{PayToWin,
    author = {Aljosha Judmayer and Nicholas Stifter and Alexei Zamyatin and Itay Tsabary and Ittay Eyal and Peter Gazi and Sarah Meiklejohn and Edgar Weippl},
    title = {Pay-To-Win: Incentive Attacks on Proof-of-Work Cryptocurrencies},
    howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Report 2019/775},
    year = {2019},
    note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/775}},
}

@misc{SafeMath,
  author = {openzeppelin},
  title = {OpenZeppelin | contracts},
  year = {2020},
  publisher = {GitHub},
  journal = {GitHub repository},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/OpenZeppelin/openzeppelin-contracts/blob/master/contracts/math/SafeMath.sol}}
}

@misc{BytesLib,
  author = {GNSPS},
  title = {Solidity Bytes Arrays Utils},
  publisher = {GitHub},
  journal = {GitHub repository},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/GNSPS/solidity-bytes-utils/blob/master/contracts/BytesLib.sol}}
}

@misc{OwnRepo,
  author = {Tristan Nemoz},
  title = {FlyClient-Chainsewing},
  publisher = {GitHub},
  journal = {GitHub repository},
  year={2020},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/tnemoz/FlyClient-Chainsewing/}}
}

@misc{BTCGas,
  author = {ethereum},
  title = {High gas costs},
  publisher = {GitHub},
  journal = {GitHub repository},
  year={2016},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/ethereum/btcrelay/issues/43}}
}