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Cryptocurrencies without Proof of Work

The paper studies stake-based chain selection and the cost of signing every fork. It is one of the early formal attempts to replace work with a scarce key.

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Authors
Iddo Bentov, Ariel Gabizon and Alex Mizrahi
Date
2016
Publisher
Iddo Bentov, Ariel Gabizon and Alex Mizrahi
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Document ID
BLC-STUDY-0165
DOI
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Last reviewed
1 October 2026
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The paper studies stake-based chain selection and the cost of signing every fork. It is one of the early formal attempts to replace work with a scarce key.

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Bentov, I., Gabizon, A., & Mizrahi, A. (2016). Cryptocurrencies without Proof of Work. Iddo Bentov, Ariel Gabizon and Alex Mizrahi. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1406.5694

BibTeX

@techreport{nipos2016,
  title = {Cryptocurrencies without Proof of Work},
  author = {Iddo Bentov, Ariel Gabizon and Alex Mizrahi},
  year = {2016},
  institution = {Iddo Bentov, Ariel Gabizon and Alex Mizrahi},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/1406.5694},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/ni-pos}
}

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