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Tuning PoW with Hybrid Expenditure
Itay Tsabary, Alexander Spiegelman, Ittay Eyal
Proof of Work (PoW) is a Sybil-deterrence security mechanism. It introduces an external cost to a system by requiring computational effort to perform actions. However, since its in…
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Mind the Mining
Guy Goren, Alexander Spiegelman
In this paper we revisit the mining strategies in proof of work based cryptocurrencies and propose two strategies, we call smart and smarter mining, that in many cases strictly dom…