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Estimating Patch Propagation Times across (Blockchain) Forks. (arXiv:2205.07478v2 [cs.CR] UPDATED)
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The wide success of Bitcoin has led to a huge surge of alternative
cryptocurrencies (altcoins). Most altcoins essentially fork Bitcoin's code with
minor modifications, such as the number of coins to be minted, the block size,
and the block generation time. As such, they are often deemed identical to
Bitcoin in terms of security, robustness, and maturity.
In this paper, we show that this common conception is misleading. By mining
data retrieved from the GitHub repositories of various altcoin projects, …
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