Mining Competition in a Multi-Cryptocurrency Ecosystem at the Network Edge: A Congestion Game Approach
Journal article, 2019

We model the competition over several blockchains characterizing multiple cryptocurrencies as a non-cooperative game. Then, we specialize our results to two instances of the general game, showing properties of the Nash equilibrium. In particular, leveraging results about congestion games, we establish the existence of pure Nash equilibria and provide efficient algorithms for finding such equilibria.

Author

Eitan Altman

Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA)

Alexandre Reiffers-Masson

Indian Institute of Science

Daniel Menasché

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Mandar Datar

Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA)

Swapnil Vilas Dhamal

Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA)

Corinne Touati

Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA)

Performance Evaluation Review

0163-5999 (ISSN)

Vol. 46 3 114-117

Subject Categories

Other Computer and Information Science

Telecommunications

Communication Systems

Areas of Advance

Information and Communication Technology

DOI

10.1145/3308897.3308950

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9/25/2023