Adding Concurrency to Smart Contracts

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Dickerson, Thomas; Gazzillo, Paul; Herlihy, Maurice; Koskinen, Eric;
(2017)
  • Subject: Computer Science - Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Modern cryptocurrency systems, such as Ethereum, permit complex financial transactions through scripts called smart contracts. These smart contracts are executed many, many times, always without real concurrency. First, all smart contracts are serially executed by miner... View more
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