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The Blockchain Game: Synthesis of Byzantine Systems and Nash Equilibria

Artificial Intelligence 2019-12-23 v1 Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing Computer Science and Game Theory

Abstract

This position paper presents a synthesis viewpoint of blockchains from two orthogonal perspectives: fault-tolerant distributed systems and game theory. Specifically, we formulate a new game-theoretical problem in the context of blockchains and sketch a closed-form Nash equilibrium to the problem.

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@article{arxiv.1912.09644,
  title  = {The Blockchain Game: Synthesis of Byzantine Systems and Nash Equilibria},
  author = {Dongfang Zhao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.09644},
  year   = {2019}
}