BitFury has been mining smallest-transactions-first. We argue why this is bad for Bitcoin.
Blockchains are beginning to turn green. This post describes some of the IC3 research in this direction.
We characterize the state of the Bitcoin network as of this year, and discover that it has improved by 70% in terms of bandwidth compared to last year alone.
Miniature world is an evaluation platform which provides a principled way of evaluating different blockchain proposals.