3 papers
cs.CE2025
Expected Revenue, Risk, and Grid Impact of Bitcoin Mining: A Decision-Theoretic Perspective
Yuting Cai, Ruthav Sadali, Korok Ray +1
Most current assessments use ex post proxies that miss uncertainty and fail to consistently capture the rapid change in bitcoin mining. We introduce a unified, ex ante statistical…
cs.LG2025
Scalable Principal-Agent Contract Design via Gradient-Based Optimization
Tomer Galanti, Aarya Bookseller, Korok Ray
We study a bilevel \emph{max-max} optimization framework for principal-agent contract design, in which a principal chooses incentives to maximize utility while anticipating the age…
cs.CR2025
Optimal Threshold Signatures in Bitcoin
Korok Ray, Sindura Saraswathi
We formulate the design of a threshold signature scheme as made possible on cryptocurrency protocols like Bitcoin. The funds are secured by an m-of-n threshold signature, where at…