Optimal selfish mining strategies in bitcoin

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 9603 LNCS, Issue , 2017, Pages 515-532

  Sapirshtein, Ayelet ^a   Sompolinsky, Yonatan ^a   Zohar, Aviv ^a,b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYPTOGRAPHY; PROFITABILITY;

COMMUNICATION DELAYS; GAIN INSIGHT; STANDARD PROTOCOLS;

ELECTRONIC MONEY;

EID: 85019682167     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-54970-4_30     Document Type: Conference Paper

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