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Paper 2017/1124
A formal model of Bitcoin transactions
Nicola Atzei and Massimo Bartoletti and Stefano Lande and Roberto Zunino
Abstract
We propose a formal model of Bitcoin transactions, which is sufficiently abstract to enable formal reasoning, and at the same time is concrete enough to serve as an alternative documentation to Bitcoin. We use our model to formally prove some well-formedness properties of the Bitcoin blockchain, for instance that each transaction can only be spent once. We release an open-source tool through which programmers can write transactions in our abstract model, and compile them into standard Bitcoin transactions.
Note: Fixed typo in Fig. 2 (signature modifiers)
Metadata
- Available format(s)
- Category
- Applications
- Publication info
- Preprint.
- Keywords
- cryptocurrencies
- Contact author(s)
- bart @ unica it
- History
- 2018-12-26: last of 4 revisions
- 2017-11-24: received
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- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2017/1124
- License
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CC BY