Distributed Ledger Technology: Blockchain Compared to Directed Acyclic Graph

F. Bencic; Ivana Podnar Žarko

DOI:10.1109/ICDCS.2018.00171

Corpus ID: 13741873

Distributed Ledger Technology: Blockchain Compared to Directed Acyclic Graph

@article{Bencic2018DistributedLT,
  title={Distributed Ledger Technology: Blockchain Compared to Directed Acyclic Graph},
  author={F. Bencic and Ivana Podnar Žarko},
  journal={2018 IEEE 38th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS)},
  year={2018},
  pages={1569-1570}
}

F. Bencic, Ivana Podnar Žarko
Published 2018
Computer Science
2018 IEEE 38th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS)

In addition to blockchain, a new paradigm is gaining momentum in the filed of distributed ledger technology—directed acyclic graphs. This paper compares the two paradigms focusing on features relevant to distributed systems using the following representative implementations: Bitcoin, Ethereum and Nano. We examine the applied data structures for maintaining the ledger, consensus mechanisms, transaction confirmation confidence, ledger size, and scalability.

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