Due to counterparty risks, some Bitcoin trading platforms allow users to rate the level of trust they have in others …. We examine users' feedback behaviour on two Bitcoin trading platforms and provide statistically strong evidence that the … feedback behaviour of Bitcoin users is dependent on how they are rated themselves, that is, they retaliate. In addition, user …

challenge, the Lightning Network (LN) is a protocol allowing two parties to secure bitcoin payments and escrow holdings between …Compared with existing payment systems, Bitcoin’s throughput is low. Designed to address Bitcoin’s scalability … cryptographically secured updates of collaterals. The network of channels increases transaction speed and reduces blockchain congestion …