@inproceedings{2dd9942a411047fd8264712b32887e6c,
title = "A Comparative Analysis of Current Cryptocurrencies",
abstract = "Blockchain technology is having a deep impact on the financial and technical sectors providing a mechanism for the creation of decentralized currencies and a number of applications in different fields. At the core of the technology there is a consensus protocol enabling the maintenance of a distributed ledger. In general current systems are complex schemes that implement a combination of cryptographic algorithm, distributed techniques, and incentive driven behaviour. In this paper we focus on three of the most diffused platforms, i.e. Bitcoin, Ripple, and Ethereum, and provide a comparative analysis of their most important features such as the architecture, the scripting language, the economic and security properties.",
keywords = "Bitcoin, Blockchain, Cryptographic Protocol, Ethereum, Ripple",
author = "Lara Mauri and Stelvio Cimato and Ernesto Damiani",
note = "Publisher Copyright: Copyright {\textcopyright} 2018 by SCITEPRESS – Science and Technology Publications, Lda. All rights reserved.; 4th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy, ICISSP 2018 ; Conference date: 22-01-2018 Through 24-01-2018",
year = "2018",
doi = "10.5220/0006648801270138",
language = "British English",
series = "ICISSP 2018 - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy",
pages = "127--138",
editor = "Paolo Mori and Steven Furnell and Olivier Camp",
booktitle = "ICISSP 2018 - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy",
}