3 papers
cs.CR2025
Automated Selfish Mining Analysis for DAG-Based PoW Consensus Protocols
Patrik Keller
Selfish mining is strategic rule-breaking to maximize rewards in proof-of-work protocols. Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) are the preferred tool for finding optimal strategies in…
cs.CR2023
Parallel Proof-of-Work with DAG-Style Voting and Targeted Reward Discounting
Patrik Keller
We present parallel proof-of-work with DAG-style voting, a novel proof-of-work cryptocurrency protocol that, compared to Bitcoin, provides better consistency guarantees, higher tra…
cs.CR2023
Generic Selfish Mining MDP for DAG Protocols
Patrik Keller
Selfish Mining is strategic rule-breaking to maximize rewards in proof-of-work protocols [3] and Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) are the preferred tool for finding optimal strateg…