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\def\BOOKTITLE{Improving Censorship-Resistance, Privacy, and Scalability of the Bitcoin Ecosystem}
\def\BOOKTITLEPLAINTEXT{Improving censorship-resistance, privacy, and scalability of the Bitcoin Ecosystem}  % for spine and PDF info

\def\KEYWORDS{bitcoin, cryptocurrency, blockchains}  % for PDF info  % keywords from papers
\def\DISCOSERIESNUMBER{41}  % check e.g. list of PhD students in Roger's CV: https://disco.ethz.ch/members/wroger/CV.pdf
\def\TIKSERIESNUMBER{205}  % from Beat
\def\DISSNUMBER{28779}  % on official invitation for doctoral examination
\def\ACCEPTYEAR{2023}  % year of the department conference after the defense (https://ethz.ch/services/de/news-und-veranstaltungen/akademischer-kalender/termine-pro-departement.html)
\def\COEXAMINERONE{Prof.\ Dr.\ Andrew Miller}
\def\COEXAMINERTWO{Prof.\ Dr.\ Majid Khabbazian}

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\def\AUTHOR{Tejaswi Nadahalli}  % include middle names
\def\LASTNAME{Nadahalli}  % for spine
\def\MASTERDEGREE{M-Tech in Information Technology, IIT-Bombay, India}  % according to diploma / degree certificate
\def\BIRTHDATE{19.11.1979}
\def\CITIZENSHIP{India}  % Swiss citizens: place of origin, according to birth certificate. Foreign citizens: nationality


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\def\backcoverabstract{
The thesis covers certain attacks and possible solutions w.r.to privacy, censorship resistance, and scalability of the Bitcoin ecosystem. The thesis presents novel transaction constructions that enable these solutions. It also presents an attack on certain DeFi protocols that rely on on-chain oracles. These attacks show that designing such systems in expressive smart contract platforms is inherently challenging.
}

\def\abouttheauthor{
Tejaswi Nadahalli performed his doctoral studies in the Distributed Computing Group at ETH Zurich under the supervision of Prof.\ Dr.\ Roger Wattenhofer, attaining the Ph.D.\ degree (Doctor of Sciences) in 2023.
}


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