Posts tagged selfish-mining

How to Detect Selfish Miners

bitcoin selfish-mining January 15, 2014 at 12:25 PM Ittay Eyal and Emin Gün Sirer
How to detect when someone in the network is engaged in selfish mining

BTC Guild Gets Lucky

bitcoin security selfish-mining January 01, 2014 at 11:13 PM Ittay Eyal and Emin Gün Sirer
BTC Guild released a number of blocks in quick succession, making some people worry that they are selfish mining. We discuss the evidence.

Bitcoin Block Propagation Speeds

bitcoin security selfish-mining November 25, 2013 at 03:15 PM Ittay Eyal and Emin Gün Sirer
New measurements show that successful selfish mining attacks are quite feasible.

Selfish Mining Simulator

bitcoin security selfish-mining November 17, 2013 at 02:40 PM Ittay Eyal and Emin Gün Sirer
There is now a visual simulator for our selfish mining attack.

Response to Feedback on Selfish Mining

bitcoin security selfish-mining November 14, 2013 at 09:45 AM Ittay Eyal and Emin Gün Sirer
There have been some early, and often misplaced, responses to the vulnerabilities we discovered in the Bitcoin system. This post addresses them.

No, You Di'n't!

bitcoin security selfish-mining November 09, 2013 at 11:55 AM Ittay Eyal and Emin Gün Sirer
The claim that our results were previously known to the Bitcoin community is specious.

Response to Fairweather Mining

bitcoin security broken selfish-mining November 08, 2013 at 11:21 AM Ittay Eyal and Emin Gün Sirer
Fairweather mining has been suggested to argue that selfish mining would be a short-lived strategy, but fairweather mining analysis is flawed because it does not take proofs of work into account.

Comment Policy #1

bitcoin selfish-mining philosophy meta November 06, 2013 at 10:30 AM Emin Gün Sirer
Policy regarding comments.

Altruism Among Capitalists?

bitcoin security selfish-mining November 05, 2013 at 10:30 AM Ittay Eyal and Emin Gün Sirer
If the health of your cryptocurrency requires Gordon Gekko to make sacrifices, it is doomed.

Some Frequently Asked Questions on Selfish Mining

bitcoin security selfish-mining November 05, 2013 at 10:30 AM Ittay Eyal and Emin Gün Sirer
Some clarifications and answers to frequently asked questions about the selfish mining attack on Bitcoin.

Bitcoin Is Broken

bitcoin security broken selfish-mining November 04, 2013 at 10:30 AM Ittay Eyal and Emin Gün Sirer
We discovered an attack against the Bitcoin mining protocol that can have a significant impact on the Bitcoin community.