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Computationally sound Bitcoin tokens

Cryptography and Security 2021-02-10 v2

Abstract

We propose a secure and efficient implementation of fungible tokens on Bitcoin. Our technique is based on a small extension of the Bitcoin script language, which allows the spending conditions in a transaction to depend on the neighbour transactions. We show that our implementation is computationally sound: that is, adversaries can make tokens diverge from their ideal functionality only with negligible probability.

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@article{arxiv.2010.01347,
  title  = {Computationally sound Bitcoin tokens},
  author = {Massimo Bartoletti and Stefano Lande and Roberto Zunino},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.01347},
  year   = {2021}
}
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