Special thanks to

The Indomitable Satoshi Nakamoto.

Acknowledgements: Paddy Cerri, Hugo Feiler, Barnaby Girling, Adam Feiler, The Minima Team.

References

[1] Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System. Satoshi Nakamoto. https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

[2] Peter Todd: Making UTXO set growth irrelevant with low latency delayed TXO commitments. https://petertodd.org/2016/delayed-txo-commitments

[3] DAGCoin: A cryptocurrency without blocks. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1177633.0

[4] Mini Blockchain: http://cryptonite.info/wiki/index.php?title=Mini-blockchain_scheme

[5] Gregory Maxwell: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/User:Gmaxwell/alt_ideas

[6] Vitalik Buterin: https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/07/11/toward-a-12-second-block-time/

[7] Secure High Rate Transaction Processing in Bitcoin: https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/881.pdf

[8] IOTA: https://wiki.iota.org/learn/about-iota/an-introduction-to-iota/

[9] Adam Back, HashCash: http://www.hashcash.org/

[10] P2Pool: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/P2Pool

[11] GMSS signature scheme: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-540-72738-5_3

[12] Eltoo: https://blockstream.com/eltoo.pdf

[13] Merkle Signature Scheme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle_signature_scheme

[14] Channel Factories: https://www.tik.ee.ethz.ch/file/a20a865ce40d40c8f942cf206a7cba96/Scalable_Funding_Of_Blockchain_Micropayment_Networks_(1).pdf https://medium.com/chainrift-research/onboarding-the-masses-channel-factories-6e5c26b07cf1

[15] Liveliness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liveness

[16] Decentralized Energy: https://www.carbontrust.com/news/2013/01/decentralised-energy-powering-a-sustainable-future/

[17] https://www.power-technology.com/features/can-the-uk-ever-achieve-a-fully-decentralised-energy-system/

[18] Ethereum : https://www.ethereum.org/

[19] Proof of Proof of Work : https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/963.pdf