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Proposal for a fully decentralized blockchain and proof-of-work algorithm for solving NP-complete problems

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arxiv 1708.09419 v2 pith:XWPFIUCW submitted 2017-08-30 cs.DC cs.CR

Carlos G. Oliver , Alessandro Ricottone , Pericles Philippopoulos This is my paper · ORCID
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We propose a proof-of-work algorithm that rewards blockchain miners for using computational resources to solve NP-complete puzzles. The resulting blockchain will publicly store and improve solutions to problems with real world applications while maintaining a secure and fully functional transaction ledger.

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  1. ScaloWork: Useful Proof-of-Work with Distributed Pool Mining

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    ScaloWork replaces hash-based mining with minimum dominating set problems on isomorphic graph instances and uses distributed pool mining to scale and prevent solution stealing.

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