Some Starting Points for Presentations
J. Bonneau et al.
SoK: Research Perspectives and Challenges for Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies
M Herlihy.
Blockchains from a Distributed Computing Perspective
Bitcoin
S. Nakamoto.
Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
I Eyal and E G Sirer.
Majority is not Enough:Bitcoin Mining is Vulnerable
I Eyal et al.
Bitcoin-NG: A Scalable Blockchain Protocol
K Croman et al.
On Scaling Decentralized Blockchains(A Position Paper)
Y Sompolinsky and A Zohar.
Accelerating Bitcoin's Transaction Processing: Fast Money Grows on Trees, Not Chains
Mike Hearn.
The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment
Vivek Wadhwa
R.I.P., Bitcoin. It’s time to move on.
Other Blockchains
J. Chen and S. Micali.
Algorand
Hyperledger White Paper
C Copeland and H Zhong.
Tangaroa: a Byzantine Fault Tolerant Raft
Tendermint
E Kokoris-Kogias et al.
OmniLedger: A Secure, Scale-Out, Decentralized Ledger
S Popov.
The Tangle
L Baird.
Hashgraph
Smart Contracts
I Sergey and A Hobor.
A Concurrent Perspective on Smart Contracts
L Luu et al.
Making Smart Contracts Smarter
N Atzei et al.
A Survey of Attacks on Ethereum Smart Contracts SoK
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T Dickerson et al.
Adding Concurrency to Smart Contracts
X Boyen et al.
Blockchain-Free Cryptocurrencies
Atomic Swaps
M Herlihy.
Atomic cross-chain Swaps
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Decred cross-chain atomic swapping
S Bowe and D Hopwood.
Hashed Time-Locked Contract transactions
Atomic cross-chain trading
Offchain transactions
M Green and I Miers.
Bolt: Anonymous Payment Channels for Decentralized Currencies
J. Poon and T Dryja.
The Bitcoin Lightning Network
Proof of Stake
V Buterin and V Griffith.
Casper the Friendly Finality Gadget
Kiayias et al.
Ouroboros: A Provably Secure Proof-of-Stake Blockchain Protocol
Consensus and Theory
J.A. Garay et al.
The Bitcoin Backbone Protocol: Analysis and Applications
Y. Sompolinsky et al.
SPECTRE: Serialization of Proof-of-work Events: Confirming Transactions via Recursive Elections
A Kiayias and G Panagiotakos.
On Trees, Chains and Fast Transactions in the Blockchain
A Kiayias and G Panagiotakos.
Speed-Security Tradeoffs in Blockchain Protocols
R Pass and E Shi.
The Sleepy Model of Consensus
Accountability
M Herlihy and M Moir.
Enhancing Accountability and Trust in Distributed Ledgers