Blockchain mining games

We study the strategic considerations of miners participating in the bitcoin’s protocol. We formulate and study the stochastic game that underlies these strategic considerations. The miners collectively build a tree which consists of a long path and potentially short branches out of it, and they are...

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Main Authors: Koutsoupias, E, Kyropoulou, M, Kiayias, A, Tselekounis, Y
Format: Conference item
Published: Association for Computing Machinery 2016