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Secure High-Rate Transaction Processing in Bitcoin

At high block rates the longest chain throws away too much honest work. GHOST follows the heaviest subtree, so blocks off the main tip still count for the fork choice.

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Authors: Yonatan Sompolinsky and Aviv Zohar
Date: 2015
Publisher: Yonatan Sompolinsky and Aviv Zohar
Version: Source cited by the 2015 study. The study is the reading. This page does not add a second essay.
Document ID: BLC-STUDY-0062
DOI: None recorded
Last reviewed: 1 October 2026
Licence: No licence recorded. Rights status under review.

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At high block rates the longest chain throws away too much honest work. GHOST follows the heaviest subtree, so blocks off the main tip still count for the fork choice.

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Canonical readingGHOST study
Related paperPHANTOM
Related paperSPECTRE
Related paperBitcoin-NG

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Sompolinsky, Y., & Zohar, A. (2015). Secure High-Rate Transaction Processing in Bitcoin. Yonatan Sompolinsky and Aviv Zohar. https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/881

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  title = {Secure High-Rate Transaction Processing in Bitcoin},
  author = {Yonatan Sompolinsky and Aviv Zohar},
  year = {2015},
  institution = {Yonatan Sompolinsky and Aviv Zohar},
  url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/881},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/ghost}
}

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