Stubborn mining: Generalizing selfish mining and combining with an eclipse attack
Conference Paper
Selfish mining, originally discovered by Eyal et al. [9], is a well-known attack where a selfish miner, under certain conditions, can gain a disproportionate share of reward by deviating from the honest behavior. In this paper, we expand the mining strategy space to include novel "stubborn" strategies that, for a large range of parameters, earn the miner more revenue. Consequently, we show that the selfish mining attack is not (in general) optimal. Further, we show how a miner can further amplify its gain by non-trivially composing mining attacks with network-level eclipse attacks. We show, surprisingly, that given the attacker's best strategy, in some cases victims of an eclipse attack can actually benefit from being eclipsed!
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Duke Authors
Cited Authors
- Nayak, K; Kumar, S; Miller, A; Shi, E
Published Date
- May 9, 2016
Published In
- Proceedings 2016 Ieee European Symposium on Security and Privacy, Euro S and P 2016
Start / End Page
- 305 - 320
International Standard Book Number 13 (ISBN-13)
- 9781509017515
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
- 10.1109/EuroSP.2016.32
Citation Source
- Scopus