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OHIE: Blockchain Scaling Made Simple

Run many parallel Nakamoto chains. A block is assigned to a chain by its hash. The safety argument stays close to bitcoin's, and the throughput is the sum.

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Authors: Haifeng Yu, Ivica Nikolić, Ruomu Hou, Prateek Saxena and Joseph Bonneau
Date: 2020
Publisher: Haifeng Yu, Ivica Nikolić, Ruomu Hou, Prateek Saxena and Joseph Bonneau
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Document ID: BLC-STUDY-0134
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Run many parallel Nakamoto chains. A block is assigned to a chain by its hash. The safety argument stays close to bitcoin's, and the throughput is the sum.

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Yu, H., Nikolić, I., Hou, R., Saxena, P., & Bonneau, J. (2020). OHIE: Blockchain Scaling Made Simple. Haifeng Yu, Ivica Nikolić, Ruomu Hou, Prateek Saxena and Joseph Bonneau. https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.12628

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@techreport{ohie2020,
  title = {OHIE: Blockchain Scaling Made Simple},
  author = {Haifeng Yu, Ivica Nikolić, Ruomu Hou, Prateek Saxena and Joseph Bonneau},
  year = {2020},
  institution = {Haifeng Yu, Ivica Nikolić, Ruomu Hou, Prateek Saxena and Joseph Bonneau},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.12628},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/ohie}
}

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