Emin Gün Sirer [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2015-12-27 📝 Original message:>Another option for how to ...

📅 Original date posted:2015-12-27
📝 Original message:>Another option for how to deal with block withholding attacks: Give the
miner who finds the block a bonus.
...
>This must have been proposed before, right? Anyone know of a good analysis
of the game theory math?

Yes, Section 8.D. in Ittay's paper discusses this countermeasure, as well
as a few others:
https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~ie53/publications/btcPoolsSP15.pdf

- egs
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