Effective Selfish Mining Defense Strategies to Improve Bitcoin Dependability

Selfish mining is a typical malicious attack targeting the blockchain-based bitcoin system, an emerging crypto asset. Because of the non-incentive compatibility of the bitcoin mining protocol, the attackers are able to collect unfair mining rewards by intentionally withholding blocks. The existing w...

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Main Authors: Chencheng Zhou, Liudong Xing, Qisi Liu, Honggang Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-12-01
Series:Applied Sciences
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/13/1/422