The effect of propagation delay on the dynamic evolution of the Bitcoin blockchain

This paper analyzes the selfish-mine strategy in the Bitcoin blockchain introduced in 2013 by I. Eyal and E. G. Sirer. This strategy could be used by a colluding pool of miners to earn more than their fair share of the mining revenue and in consequence to force other honest miners to join them to de...

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Main Author: Moustapha BA
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. 2020-05-01
Series:Digital Communications and Networks
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352864818300373