Paper 2018/780 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2018/780 ↗
A Game Theoretic Analysis of Resource Mining in Blockchain
Abstract
Blockchain and cryptocurrency are a hot topic in today’s digital world. In this paper, we create a game theoretic model in continuous time. We consider a dynamic game model of the bitcoin market, where miners or players use mining systems to mine bitcoin by investing electricity into the mining system. Although this work is motivated by BTC, the work presented can be applicable to other mining systems similar to BTC. We propose three concepts of dynamic game theoretic solutions to the model: Social optimum, Nash equilibrium and myopic Nash equilibrium. Using the model that a player represents a single “miner” or a “mining pool”, we develop novel and interesting results for the cryptocurrency world.
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- History
- 2019-11-24: last updated
- 2018-09-01: published
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2018/780
- License
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2018/780,
author = {Rajani Singh and Ashutosh Dhar Dwivedi and Gautam Srivastava and Agnieszka Wiszniewska-Matyszkiel and Xiaochun Cheng},
title = {A Game Theoretic Analysis of Resource Mining in Blockchain},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2018/780},
year = {2018},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/780}
}