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Oct 9, 2023

Merged Mining and Decentralization

In this article we analyze the benefits and risks of merged mining, and we highlight the potential of blind merged mining to create a…

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Sergio Demian Lerner

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Jan 30, 2023

Optimistic State Prefetching (OSP)

A recent paper suggests that the EVM performance can be increased 6x with speculative execution. The idea is to use the information…

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Sergio Demian Lerner

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Jan 26, 2023

EVM blockchain Scalability & ACID Database Properties

The main data structure that holds accounts, balances, code and contract storage in an EVM-based blockchain is the world state trie. The…

EVM blockchain Scalability & ACID Database Properties

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Apr 6, 2022

Measuring RSK Security

A complex system’s security cannot be measured by a single metric. Security is the result of the combined strength of a series of…

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Jan 17, 2022

Flaws in Ethereum’s EIP-1559

EIP-1559 added a mechanism for the Ethereum network to establish a base transaction gas price that dynamically changes depending on the…

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Sergio Demian Lerner

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Jan 13, 2022

RSK Scalability

In 2015 a group of Bitcoiners including myself started brainstorming on how to use Bitcoin to achieve true financial inclusion. True…

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Sergio Demian Lerner

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Jan 7, 2022

Blockchain Scalability

To be successful in building a new open financial system, blockchains need to scale. Scalability is a property of a blockchain design, an…

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Oct 14, 2021

Cheaper Payment Rollups with Ephemeral Calldata

(or how RSK can become a Data Availability Layer for Rollups)

Cheaper Payment Rollups with Ephemeral Calldata

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Aug 4, 2021

More on the Security Against Fee Sniping in RSK

In a previous article we discussed different fee sniping attacks and we analyzed how they could impact RSK. In this article we dig deeper…

More on the Security Against Fee Sniping in RSK

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Jul 14, 2021

The RSK Emergency Multisig

For many years, it was believed that the federated model was the best method to secure the two-way-peg of a Bitcoin sidechain without…