Nonlinear Feedback Control and Stability Analysis of a Proof-of-Work Blockchain

In this paper a novel feedback controller and stability analysis of a blockchain implementation is developed by using a control engineering perspective. The controller output equals the difficulty adjustment in the mining process while the feedback variable is the average block time over a certain t...

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Main Authors: Geir Hovland, Jan Kucera
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Norwegian Society of Automatic Control 2017-10-01
Series:Modeling, Identification and Control
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Online Access:http://www.mic-journal.no/PDF/2017/MIC-2017-4-1.pdf