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Fair Client Puzzles from the Bitcoin Blockchain
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2016
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Client puzzles have been proposed as a mechanism for proving legitimate intentions by providing "proofs of work", which can be applied to discourage malicious usage of resources. A typical problem of puzzle constructions is the difference in expected solving time on different computing platforms. We call puzzles which can be solved independently of client computing resources fair client puzzles. We propose a construction for client puzzles requiring widely distributed computational effort for
doi:10.1007/978-3-319-40253-6_10
fatcat:dgvc3gv3ajb2vb6c3m57ivleb4