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That's a good question. One of the points I'll make in the follow-up post that I promised is that it is indeed possible to capture the motivation of such an att
by randomwalker 12y ago
That's a good question. One of the points I'll make in the follow-up post that I promised is that it is indeed possible to capture the motivation of such an attacker in game theory, and in fact, this has been done. [1] However, it makes the model less elegant and introduces parameters. The more of these complexities you wish to model, the less tractable the model becomes.
[1] http://weis2013.econinfosec.org/papers/KrollDaveyFeltenWEIS2013.pdf http://weis2013.econinfosec.org/papers/KrollDaveyFeltenWEIS2... (Section 5).
- jaekwon 12y agoI think that's the paper that Eyal & Sirer disprove with "selfish mining". And here's a post that may provide a useful mental framework for thinking about cryptocurrency consensus protocols and game-theory: http://tendermint.com/posts/security-of-cryptocurrency-protocols/ http://tendermint.com/posts/security-of-cryptocurrency-proto... And a proposed solution: http://tendermint.com/docs/tendermint.pdf http://tendermint.com/docs/tendermint.pdf Also, check out the email invite I sent you to the group! p.s. if anybody wants access, just email me.