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Aviv Zohar

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    20052024

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    • 2024

      Nakamoto Consensus under Bounded Processing Capacity

      Kiffer, L., Neu, J., Sridhar, S., Zohar, A. & Tse, D., 9 Dec 2024, CCS 2024 - Proceedings of the 2024 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, p. 363-377 15 p. (CCS 2024 - Proceedings of the 2024 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      Open Access
      1 Scopus citations

    • Speculative Denial-of-Service Attacks in Ethereum

      Yaish, A., Qin, K., Zhou, L., Zohar, A. & Gervais, A., 2024, Proceedings of the 33rd USENIX Security Symposium. USENIX Association, p. 3531-3548 18 p. (Proceedings of the 33rd USENIX Security Symposium).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      2 Scopus citations
    • 2023

      Correct Cryptocurrency ASIC Pricing: Are Miners Overpaying?

      Yaish, A. & Zohar, A., 1 Oct 2023, 5th Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies, AFT 2023. Bonneau, J. & Weinberg, S. M. (eds.). Schloss Dagstuhl- Leibniz-Zentrum fur Informatik GmbH, Dagstuhl Publishing, p. 2:1-2:25 25 p. 2. (Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, LIPIcs; vol. 282).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      2 Scopus citations
    • 2022

      Blockchain Stretching & Squeezing: Manipulating Time for Your Best Interest

      Yaish, A., Tochner, S. & Zohar, A., 12 Jul 2022, EC 2022 - Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Conference on Economics and Computation. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, p. 65-88 24 p. (EC 2022 - Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Conference on Economics and Computation).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      19 Scopus citations

    • How to Charge Lightning: The Economics of Bitcoin Transaction Channels

      Branzei, S., Segal-Halevi, E. & Zohar, A., 2022, 2022 58th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Allerton 2022. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 1-8 8 p. (2022 58th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Allerton 2022).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      5 Scopus citations

    • Redesigning Bitcoin's Fee Market

      Lavi, R., Sattath, O. & Zohar, A., Mar 2022, In: ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation. 10, 1, p. 5:1-5:31 31 p., 5.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

      17 Scopus citations

    • Sliding Window Challenge Process for Congestion Detection

      Lotem, A., Azouvi, S., McCorry, P. & Zohar, A., 2022, Financial Cryptography and Data Security - 26th International Conference, FC 2022, Revised Selected Papers. Eyal, I. & Garay, J. (eds.). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, p. 512-530 19 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 13411 LNCS).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

    • Twilight: A Differentially Private Payment Channel Network

      Dotan, M., Tochner, S., Zohar, A. & Gilad, Y., 2022, Proceedings of the 31st USENIX Security Symposium, Security 2022. USENIX Association, p. 555-570 16 p. (Proceedings of the 31st USENIX Security Symposium, Security 2022).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      10 Scopus citations

    • Virtual ASICs: Generalized Proof-of-Stake Mining in Cryptocurrencies

      Ganesh, C., Orlandi, C., Tschudi, D. & Zohar, A., 2022, Data Privacy Management, Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology - ESORICS 2021 International Workshops, DPM 2021 and CBT 2021, Revised Selected Papers. Garcia-Alfaro, J., Muñoz-Tapia, J. L., Navarro-Arribas, G. & Soriano, M. (eds.). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, p. 173-191 19 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 13140 LNCS).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      2 Scopus citations
    • 2021

      Congestion Attacks in Payment Channel Networks

      Mizrahi, A. & Zohar, A., 2021, Financial Cryptography and Data Security - 25th International Conference, FC 2021, Revised Selected Papers. Borisov, N. & Diaz, C. (eds.). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, p. 170-188 19 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 12675 LNCS).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      39 Scopus citations

    • PHANTOM GHOSTDAG: A scalable generalization of Nakamoto consensus: September 2, 2021

      Sompolinsky, Y., Wyborski, S. & Zohar, A., 26 Sep 2021, AFT 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 3rd ACM Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, p. 57-70 14 p. (AFT 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 3rd ACM Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      43 Scopus citations

    • Survey on Blockchain Networking: Context, State-of-the-Art, Challenges

      Dotan, M., Pignolet, Y. A., Schmid, S., Tochner, S. & Zohar, A., 25 May 2021, In: ACM Computing Surveys. 54, 5, p. 1-34 34 p., 107.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

      68 Scopus citations

    • The Vulnerable Nature of Decentralized Governance in DeFi

      Dotan, M., Yaish, A., Yin, H. C., Tsytkin, E. & Zohar, A., 27 Nov 2021, DeFi 2023 - Proceedings of the 2023 Workshop on Decentralized Finance and Security. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, p. 25-31 7 p. (DeFi 2023 - Proceedings of the 2023 Workshop on Decentralized Finance and Security).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      Open Access
      8 Scopus citations

    • Uncle Maker: (Time)Stamping Out The Competition in Ethereum

      Yaish, A., Stern, G. & Zohar, A., 21 Nov 2021, CCS 2023 - Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, p. 135-149 15 p. (CCS 2023 - Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      Open Access
      10 Scopus citations
    • 2020

      Flood & Loot: A Systemic Attack on the Lightning Network

      Harris, J. & Zohar, A., 21 Oct 2020, AFT 2020 - Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, p. 202-213 12 p. (AFT 2020 - Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      42 Scopus citations

    • How to Pick Your Friends A Game Theoretic Approach to P2P Overlay Construction

      Tochner, S. & Zohar, A., 21 Oct 2020, AFT 2020 - Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, p. 37-45 9 p. (AFT 2020 - Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      Open Access

    • Reasoning about the future in blockchain databases

      Cohen, S., Rosenthal, A. & Zohar, A., Apr 2020, Proceedings - 2020 IEEE 36th International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2020. IEEE Computer Society, p. 1930-1933 4 p. 9101185. (Proceedings - International Conference on Data Engineering; vol. 2020-April).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      7 Scopus citations

    • Responsible vulnerability disclosure in cryptocurrencies

      Böhme, R., Eckey, L., Moore, T., Narula, N., Ruffing, T. & Zohar, A., 23 Sep 2020, In: Communications of the ACM. 63, 10, p. 62-71 10 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

      Open Access
      12 Scopus citations

    • Route Hijacking and DoS in Off-Chain Networks

      Tochner, S., Zohar, A. & Schmid, S., 21 Oct 2020, AFT 2020 - Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, p. 228-240 13 p. (AFT 2020 - Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      28 Scopus citations

    • SOK: Cryptocurrency networking context, state-of-the-art, challenges

      Dotan, M., Pignolet, Y. A., Schmid, S., Tochner, S. & Zohar, A., 25 Aug 2020, Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, ARES 2020. Association for Computing Machinery, (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      11 Scopus citations
    • 2019

      Redesigning Bitcoin's fee market

      Lavi, R., Sattath, O. & Zohar, A., 13 May 2019, The Web Conference 2019 - Proceedings of the World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2019. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, p. 2950-2956 7 p. (The Web Conference 2019 - Proceedings of the World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2019).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      Open Access
      39 Scopus citations
    • 2018

      Avoiding Deadlocks in Payment Channel Networks

      Werman, S. & Zohar, A., 2018, Data Privacy Management, Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology - ESORICS 2018 International Workshops, DPM 2018 and CBT 2018, Proceedings. Garcia-Alfaro, J., Herrera-Joancomartí, J., Livraga, G. & Rios, R. (eds.). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, p. 175-187 13 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 11025 LNCS).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      15 Scopus citations

    • Bitcoin’s underlying incentives

      Sompolinsky, Y. & Zohar, A., Mar 2018, In: Communications of the ACM. 61, 3, p. 46-53 8 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

      35 Scopus citations
    • 2017

      Bitcoin's underlying incentives: The unseen economic forces that govern the Bitcoin protocol

      Sompolinsky, Y. & Zohar, A., 1 Sep 2017, In: Queue. 15, 5

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

      3 Scopus citations

    • Hijacking Bitcoin: Routing Attacks on Cryptocurrencies

      Apostolaki, M., Zohar, A. & Vanbever, L., 23 Jun 2017, 2017 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, SP 2017 - Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 375-392 18 p. 7958588. (Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      Open Access
      369 Scopus citations

    • Memory-based mechanisms for economic agents

      Dollberg, G. & Zohar, A., 2017, 16th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2017. Durfee, E., Winikoff, M., Larson, K. & Das, S. (eds.). International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS), p. 1523-1525 3 p. (Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS; vol. 3).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

    • Optimal selfish mining strategies in bitcoin

      Sapirshtein, A., Sompolinsky, Y. & Zohar, A., 2017, Financial Cryptography and Data Security - 20th International Conference, FC 2016, Revised Selected Papers. Preneel, B. & Grossklags, J. (eds.). Springer Verlag, p. 515-532 18 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 9603 LNCS).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      372 Scopus citations

    • Recent trends in decentralized cryptocurrencies

      Zohar, A., 19 Jun 2017, STOC 2017 - Proceedings of the 49th Annual ACM SIGACT Symposium on Theory of Computing. McKenzie, P., King, V. & Hatami, H. (eds.). Association for Computing Machinery, p. 1 1 p. (Proceedings of the Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing; vol. Part F128415).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

    • Securing and scaling cryptocurrencies

      Zohar, A., 2017, 26th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2017. Sierra, C. (ed.). International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, p. 5161-5165 5 p. (IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence; vol. 0).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      Open Access
      10 Scopus citations
    • 2016

      An axiomatic approach to routing

      Lev, O., Tennenholtz, M. & Zohar, A., 23 Jun 2016, In: Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science, EPTCS. 215, p. 194-206 13 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference article › peer-review

      Open Access

    • Online pricing with strategic and patient buyers

      Feldman, M., Koren, T., Livni, R., Mansour, Y. & Zohar, A., 2016, In: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. p. 3871-3879 9 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference article › peer-review

      19 Scopus citations

    • The axiomatic approach and the internet

      Tennenholtz, M. & Zohar, A., 1 Jan 2016, Handbook of Computational Social Choice. Cambridge University Press, p. 427-452 26 p.

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

      4 Scopus citations
    • 2015

      An axiomatic approach to link prediction

      Cohen, S. & Zohar, A., 1 Jun 2015, Proceedings of the 29th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2015 and the 27th Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, IAAI 2015. AI Access Foundation, p. 58-64 7 p. (Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence; vol. 1).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      6 Scopus citations

    • Bitcoin: Under the hood

      Zohar, A., 1 Sep 2015, In: Communications of the ACM. 58, 9, p. 104-113 10 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

      207 Scopus citations

    • Bitcoin mining pools: A cooperative game theoretic analysis

      Lewenberg, Y., Bachrach, Y., Sompolinsky, Y., Zohar, A. & Rosenschein, J. S., 2015, AAMAS 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. Elkind, E., Weiss, G., Yolum, P. & Bordini, R. H. (eds.). International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS), p. 919-927 9 p. (Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS; vol. 2).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      201 Scopus citations

    • Eclipse attacks on Bitcoin’s peer-to-peer network

      Heilman, E., Kendler, A., Zohar, A. & Goldberg, S., 2015, Proceedings of the 24th USENIX Security Symposium. USENIX Association, p. 129-144 16 p. (Proceedings of the 24th USENIX Security Symposium).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      693 Scopus citations

    • Inclusive block chain protocols

      Lewenberg, Y., Sompolinsky, Y. & Zohar, A., 2015, Financial Cryptography and Data Security - 19th International Conference, FC 2015, Revised Selected Papers. Okamoto, T. & Bohme, R. (eds.). Springer Verlag, p. 528-547 20 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 8975).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      250 Scopus citations

    • Secure high-rate transaction processing in bitcoin

      Sompolinsky, Y. & Zohar, A., 2015, Financial Cryptography and Data Security - 19th International Conference, FC 2015, Revised Selected Papers. Okamoto, T. & Bohme, R. (eds.). Springer Verlag, p. 507-527 21 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 8975).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      528 Scopus citations
    • 2012

      Economics of BitTorrent communities

      Kash, I. A., Lai, J. K., Zhang, H. & Zohar, A., 2012, WWW'12 - Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on World Wide Web. p. 221-230 10 p. (WWW'12 - Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on World Wide Web).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      16 Scopus citations

    • On bitcoin and red balloons

      Babaioff, M., Dobzinski, S., Oren, S. & Zohar, A., 2012, EC '12 - Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce. p. 56-73 18 p. (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      166 Scopus citations
    • 2011

      Best-response auctions

      Nisan, N., Schapira, M., Valiant, G. & Zohar, A., 2011, EC'11 - Proceedings of the 12th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce. p. 351-359 9 p. (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      19 Scopus citations

    • Exploiting problem symmetries in state-based planners

      Pochter, N., Zohar, A. & Rosenschein, J. S., 2011, AAAI-11 / IAAI-11 - Proceedings of the 25th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 23rd Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference. p. 1004-1009 6 p. (Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence; vol. 2).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      37 Scopus citations

    • Incentive-compatible distributed greedy protocols

      Nisan, N., Schapira, M., Valiant, G. & Zohar, A., 2011, PODC'11 - Proceedings of the 2011 ACM Symposium Principles of Distributed Computing. p. 335-336 2 p. (Proceedings of the Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      1 Scopus citations

    • Interdomain routing and games

      Levin, H., Schapira, M. & Zohar, A., 2011, In: SIAM Journal on Computing. 40, 6, p. 1892-1912 21 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

      Open Access
      9 Scopus citations

    • Mechanisms for multi-level marketing

      Emek, Y., Karidi, R., Tennenholtz, M. & Zohar, A., 2011, EC'11 - Proceedings of the 12th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce. p. 209-218 10 p. (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      Open Access
      66 Scopus citations
    • 2010

      Competing Schedulers

      Ashlagi, I., Tennenholtz, M. & Zohar, A., 15 Jul 2010, Proceedings of the 24th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2010. AAAI Press, p. 691-696 6 p. (Proceedings of the 24th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2010).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      3 Scopus citations

    • Incentive compatibility and dynamics of congestion control

      Godfrey, P. B., Schapira, M., Zohar, A. & Shenker, S., 2010, SIGMETRICS'10 - Proceedings of the 2010 ACM SIGMETRICS International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems. 1 SPEC. ISSUE ed. p. 95-106 12 p. (Performance Evaluation Review; vol. 38, no. 1 SPEC. ISSUE).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      13 Scopus citations
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