14 citations · 15 across the 2 of their papers we have counts for
2 papers
cs.CR2020★ 1 cited
Pricing Security in Proof-of-Work Systems
George Bissias, Rainer Böhme, David Thibodeau +1
A key component of security in decentralized blockchains is proof of opportunity cost among block producers. In the case of proof-of-work (PoW), currently used by the most prominen…
cs.CR2019★ 14 cited
Rationality is Self-Defeating in Permissionless Systems
Bryan Ford, Rainer Böhme
We outline a metacircular argument explaining why it is rational to be irrational when attacking open-world decentralized systems, and why systems whose security depend on rational…