Paper 2023/1485
How to Physically Hold Your Bitcoins ?
Abstract
The rise of virtual currencies has revolutionized the way we conduct financial transactions. These digital assets, governed by intricate online protocols, have rapidly gained prominence as a viable medium of exchange, offering convenience and security. However, as we delve deeper into the digital realm, a challenge persists: How can we bridge the gap between the virtual and the physical? This paper tackles this challenge by proposing a way to materialize virtual coins and make them physically exchangeable offline at the cost of some plausible trust assumptions.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
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PDF
- Publication info
- Preprint.
- Keywords
- Virtual currenciesMaterializeOnline protocolsFinancial transactions
- Contact author(s)
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ferradih @ gmail com
antoine houssais @ gmail com
david naccache @ ens fr - History
- 2023-10-02: approved
- 2023-09-28: received
- See all versions
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2023/1485
- License
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CC0
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2023/1485,
author = {Houda Ferradi and Antoine Houssais and David Naccache},
title = {How to Physically Hold Your Bitcoins ?},
howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2023/1485},
year = {2023},
note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1485}},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1485}
}
