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On Offline Payments with Bitcoin (Poster Abstract)

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Bitcoin [2] is a decentralized digital currency which relies neither on banks nor on any other central authority for issuing of coins or transaction verification. Currently, Bitcoin experiences enormous success driven by large interest from users, politics, but also by speculation.

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  1. 1.

    As usual we use capitalized Bitcoin to denote the system and lowercase bitcoin to refer to monetary currency.

  2. 2.

    https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade

  3. 3.

    http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/9816/how-long-does-it-take-to- download-the-blockchain-its-been-over-a-day-and-still

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  1. Karame, G.O. Androulaki, E., Capkun, S.: Double-spending fast payments in bitcoin. In: Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (2012)

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  2. Nakamoto, S.: Bitcoin: a peer-to-peer electronic cash system. Technical report (2008). www.bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

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Dmitrienko, A., Noack, D., Sadeghi, AR., Yung, M. (2014). On Offline Payments with Bitcoin (Poster Abstract). In: Böhme, R., Brenner, M., Moore, T., Smith, M. (eds) Financial Cryptography and Data Security. FC 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8438. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44774-1_11

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