Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/222569 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 355
Publisher: 
University of Zurich, Department of Economics, Zurich
Abstract: 
This paper studies the dynamic construction of a blockchain by competitive miners. In contrast to the literature, we assume a finite time horizon. It is shown that popular mining strategies such as adherence to conservative mining or to the longest-chain rule constitute pure-strategy Nash equilibria. However, these equilibria are not subgame perfect.
Subjects: 
blockchain
proof-of-work
Nash equilibrium
subgame perfection
selfish mining
JEL: 
C72
C73
D72
E42
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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