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Decentralized Attack Search and the Design of Bug Bounty Schemes
Hans Gersbach, Akaki Mamageishvili, Fikri Pitsuwan
Systems and blockchains often have security vulnerabilities and can be attacked by adversaries, with potentially significant negative consequences. Therefore, infrastructure provid…
Staking Pools on Blockchains
Hans Gersbach, Akaki Mamageishvili, Manvir Schneider
On several proof-of-stake blockchains, agents engaged in validating transactions can open a pool to which others can delegate their stake in order to earn higher returns. We develo…
Vote Delegation with Unknown Preferences
Hans Gersbach, Akaki Mamageishvili, Manvir Schneider
We examine vote delegation when preferences of agents are private information. One group of agents (delegators) does not want to participate in voting and abstains under convention…
Vote Delegation and Misbehavior
Hans Gersbach, Akaki Mamageishvili, Manvir Schneider
We study vote delegation with "well-behaving" and "misbehaving" agents and compare it with conventional voting. Typical examples for vote delegation are validation or governance ta…
The Great Divide: Drivers of Polarization in the US Public
Lucas Böttcher, Hans Gersbach
Many democratic societies have become more politically polarized, with the U.S. as the main example. The origins of this phenomenon are still not well-understood and subject to deb…
Competing Activists--Political Polarization
Lucas Böttcher, Pedro Montealegre, Eric Goles +1
Recent empirical findings suggest that societies have become more polarized in various countries. That is, the median voter of today represents a smaller fraction of society compar…