BioBlockchain: Useful Proof-of-Work with Multiple Sequence Alignment
Publication Date
1-1-2021
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Title
Communications in Computer and Information Science
Volume
1383 CCIS
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-72725-3_12
First Page
160
Last Page
166
Abstract
Although Bitcoin is a successful electronic cash system, mining bitcoin wastes computation resources since the proof-of-work requires the miners to solve computational puzzles that have no intrinsic benefit to society. On the other hand, multiple sequence alignment is widely used in bioinformatics for analyzing similarities or differences among sequences, but it takes time and computational efforts. To reduce the waste of mining bitcoin, this paper proposes a modification to the Bitcoin protocol so that it requires the miners to find a multiple sequence alignment of protein sequences for proof-or-work.
Keywords
Bioinformatics, Blockchain, Multiple sequence alignment
Department
Computer Science
Recommended Citation
Yan Chen, Thomas H. Austin, and Philip Heller. "BioBlockchain: Useful Proof-of-Work with Multiple Sequence Alignment" Communications in Computer and Information Science (2021): 160-166. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72725-3_12
