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Beware the Weak Sentinel: Making OpenCBDC Auditable without Compromising Privacy

Abstract: We propose, implement, and evaluate two extensions to OpenCBDC, an open-source transaction processor designed for central ba…
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Enhancing the Privacy of a Digital Pound

With the increase in electronic payments options, privacy considerations are becoming even more important and privacy concerns more prevale…
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CBDC as a Cryptographic Platform

As announced on March 17, 2022, the Bank of Canada collaborated on a two year CBDC research project with the MIT Digital Currency Initiativ…
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Bitcoin Core's migration to the CMake buildsystem

The DCI’s Bitcoin Core developers have been reviewing and guiding Hennadii Stepanov's work to migrate to the CMake buildsystem, which was m…
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Evaluating the Practical Privacy of Whirlpool CoinJoins

Bitcoin is the leading public permissionless digital currency. Bitcoin uses a public ledger to achieve strong security properties and doubl…
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Bitcoin Security in Absence of Block Rewards

In 2016, a research paper by Carlsten et. al proposed a specific type of mining attack that could occur once block subsidies disappear call…
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Black Forest

Black Forest is a participatory public artwork collecting the names and stories of Black lives lost to COVID-19 in the U.S. and planting tr…
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A Counting

A Counting is an ongoing series of software-generated live-streamed sound and video works composed of an evolving neverending count fr…
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OpenCBDC

ResearchTechnical Paper | Executive Summary | GitHubAboutIntroductionOpenCBDC is an open source project to engage in co…
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The Shipt Calculator: Crowdsourcing Gig Worker Pay Data to Audit Algorithmic Management

The increasing prevalence of large-scale labor aggregation platforms, worker analytics, and algorithmic decision-making by management raise…
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Yourfeed

Yourfeed is a modular tool for ecologically valid social media research. Designed to mirror the design of a social media newsfeed, Yourfeed…
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ADESS: A Proof of Work Blockchain Protocol Modification to Deter Double-Spend Attacks

A principal vulnerability of a proof-of-work ("PoW") blockchain is that an attacker can re-write the history of transactions by forking a p…
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PArSEC: Executing Smart Contracts in Parallel

Parallelized Architecture for Scalably Executing smart Contracts (PArSEC)AuthorsJames Lovejoy, Federal Reserve Bank of BostonAnders Brownwo…
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News Bridge

Engaging politically diverse audiences on social mediaNews Bridge studied how the language that a media outlet – PBS’ Frontline – uses to p…
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CBDC User Research Collaborations

What will it take for decentralized networks to realize our vision of a radically improved financial system that protects user privacy and …
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LocFedMix-SL

Split learning (SL) is a promising distributed learning framework that enables to utilize the huge data and parallel computing resources of…
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Transformable Discreet Log Contracts (TDLC)

Abstract Since Bitcoin and the Unspent Transaction Output (UTXO) model were introduced by Satoshi Nakamoto over a decade ago, there ha…
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