Title
Proof of No-Work - How to Incentivize Individuals to Stay at Home.
Abstract
The recent pandemic of novel coronavirus introduces a new challenge to balancing social welfare, the economy, and privacy while reducing contact among individuals To reduce the reproduction rate without spoiling our economy, we need good incentive mechanisms to reduce the possibility of spreading the virus as well as good privacy enhancing techniques Unfortunately, some of the recent approaches in contact tracing are not successful due to privacy concerns and a lack of sufficient incentive mechanisms to guide behavior instead of simply tracking infections In this paper, we provide a design using smart contracts as an incentive mechanism with enhanced privacy of user location information We utilize encrypted data calculated from a set of network routing information, and a plaintext equality test of a public key cryptosystem to estimate the duration one is present at the same location By staying at the same location longer, a user can obtain greater rewards We have implemented a proof concept of this scheme to evaluate its efficiency We also discuss financial regulation and economic viewpoints © 2020, Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1007/978-3-030-66172-4_25
DPM/CBT@ESORICS
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Michael Bartholic100.34
Jianan Su200.34
Ryosuke Ushida300.34
Yusuke Ikeno400.34
Zhengrong Gu500.34
Shin'ichiro Matsuo611616.05