Fwd: BTC Game Theory

Hi Julian,

Was great talking with you after class. I definitely think you should think about doing some Bitcoin research at PED -- here are some links to get you going (don't be overloaded by them, but there is good shit here! Maybe PED should do a reading group):

http://www.jbonneau.com/doc/BMCNKF15-IEEESP-bitcoin.pdf < General intro to btc

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/game-theory-and-bitcoin/ < Game theory intro on btc

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/randomwalker/bitcoin-and-game-theory-were-still-scratching-the-surface/

http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~yoadlew/bitcoin.pdf < Mining Game theory

http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.0243 < selfish mining paper

http://hackingdistributed.com/2014/01/15/detecting-selfish-mining/ < detecting selfish miners

https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/796.pdf < Generalizing the model of selfish mining

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/131764/web/bitcoin_mind_the_gap.pdf < Gap mining

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1154520.0 < Fake version changing

My philosophical POV is that bitcoin is a lot like the bourgeois strategy in hawk dove -- it provides a common rule we can defect to reliably for resolving disputes. But there's so much more layered in how that rule gets made.

Cheers,

Jeremy

@JeremyRubin

Jeffrey, Turns out one of Martin's students, Julian is in my class. We chatted afterwards, I figured you'd like some of these links so forwarding...

I particularly recommend Fake Version Changing, Gap Mining, and Selfish mining, the other stuff is more introductory on Bitcoin's model.

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