Publications

Jan 5 2020

Dissertation

On the Scalability and Security of Bitcoin
Christian Decker Distributed Computing Series) (Volume 25)
Awarded the ETH Medal for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation

Conference Papers

Scalable Funding of Bitcoin Micropayment Channel Networks
Conrad Burchert, Christian Decker and Roger Wattenhofer.
19th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS), Boston, Massachusetts, USA, November 2017.

On Scaling Decentralized Blockchains
Kyle Croman, Christian Decker, Ittay Eyal, Adem Efe Gencer, Ari Juels, Ahmed Kosba, Andrew Miller, Prateek Saxena, Elaine Shi, Emin Gun Sirer, Dawn Song and Roger Wattenhofer.
3rd Workshop on Bitcoin Research (BITCOIN), Barbados, February 2016.

Bitcoin Meets Strong Consistency
Christian Decker, Jochen Seidel and Roger Wattenhofer.
17th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN), Singapore, January 2016.

Making Bitcoin Exchanges Transparent
Christian Decker, James Guthrie, Jochen Seidel and Roger Wattenhofer.
20th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), Vienna, Austria, September 2015.

goProbe: A Scalable Distributed Network Monitoring Solution
Lennart Elsen, Fabian Kohn, Christian Decker and Roger Wattenhofer.
15th IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, August 2015.

A Fast and Scalable Payment Network with Bitcoin Duplex Micropayment Channels
Christian Decker and Roger Wattenhofer.
17th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS), Edmonton, Canada, August 2015.

BlueWallet: The Secure Bitcoin Wallet
Tobias Bamert, Christian Decker, Roger Wattenhofer and Samuel Welten.
10th International Workshop on Security and Trust Management (STM), Wroclaw, Poland, September 2014.

Bitcoin Transaction Malleability and MtGox
Christian Decker and Roger Wattenhofer.
19th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), Wroclaw, Poland, September 2014.

Have a Snack, Pay with Bitcoins
Tobias Bamert, Christian Decker, Lennart Elsen, Roger Wattenhofer and Samuel Welten.
13th IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P), Trento, Italy, September 2013.

Information Propagation in the Bitcoin Network
Christian Decker and Roger Wattenhofer.
13th IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P), Trento, Italy, September 2013.
Awarded the Best Paper Award

Exploring and Improving BitTorrent Topologies
Christian Decker, Raphael Eidenbenz and Roger Wattenhofer.
13th IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P),Trento, Italy, September 2013.