Re: BTC Game Theory

one weakness in the game theory approach is it does not have an observer. . it is the right strategy to always play rock, if you would like the observer to think you are an idiot

On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 4:40 PM, Jeremy Rubin < > wrote:
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.

@JeremyRubin

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From: Jeremy Rubin <[REDACTED]>
Date: Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 4:39 PM
Subject: BTC Game Theory
To: [REDACTED]

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/ < Game theory
intro

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,

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Jeremy

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