Deep Bribe: Predicting the Rise of Bribery in Blockchain Mining with Deep RL

ePrint Report: Deep Bribe: Predicting the Rise of Bribery in Blockchain Mining with Deep RL

Roi Bar-Zur, Danielle Dori, Sharon Vardi, Ittay Eyal, Aviv Tamar

Blockchain security relies on incentives to ensure participants, called miners, cooperate and behave as the protocol dictates. Such protocols have a security threshold – a miner whose relative computational power is larger than the threshold can deviate to improve her revenue. Moreover, blockchain participants can behave in a petty compliant manner: usually follow the protocol, …

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