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Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering >> 2019, Volume 20, Issue 10 doi: 10.1631/FITEE.1800119

Low powered blockchain consensus protocols based on consistent hash

Affiliation(s): University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China; Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China; less

Accepted: 2019-11-11 Available online: 2019-11-11

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Abstract

Current s have a triangle of contradictions in aspects of decentralization, security, and energy con-sumption, and cannot be synchronously optimized. We describe a design of two new s, called “CHB-consensus” and “CHBD-consensus,” based on a algorithm. Honest miners can fairly gain the opportunity to create blocks. They do not consume any extra computational power resources when creating new blocks, and such blocks can obtain the whole network to confirm consensus with fairness. However, malicious miners have to pay massive computational power resources for attacking the new block creation privilege or double-spending. networks formed by CHB-consensus and CHBD-consensus are based on the same security assumption as that in Bitcoin systems, so they save a huge amount of power without sacrificing decentralization or security. We analyze possible attacks and give a rigorous but adjustable validation strategy. CHB-consensus and CHBD-consensus introduce a certification authority (CA) system, which does not have special management or control rights over networks or data structures, but carries the risk of privacy breaches depending on credibility and reliability of the CA system. Here, we analyze the robustness and energy consumption of CHB-consensus and CHBD-consensus, and demonstrate their advantages through theoretical derivation.

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