Bitcoin blockchain dynamics: The selfish-mine strategy in the presence of propagation delay

Performance Evaluation

Volumn 104, Issue , 2016, Pages 23-41

  Gobel J ^a   Keeler, H P ^c   Krzesinski, A E ^b   Taylor, P G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bitcoin; Block hiding strategies; Blockchain; Honest mining; Selfish mine

Indexed keywords

DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MINERS;

BITCOIN; BLOCK-CHAIN; COMMUNICATION DELAYS; HIDING STRATEGY; MINING COMMUNITIES; PROPAGATION DELAYS; RATE OF PRODUCTIONS; SPATIAL POISSON PROCESS;

ELECTRONIC MONEY;

EID: 84990222522     PISSN: 01665316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.peva.2016.07.001     Document Type: Article

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