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Crypto-economics and Game Theory

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In this chapter, we cover block production methods, blockchain security, consensus, the importance of good incentives, and the most common attack vectors on a typical blockchain.

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Notes

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    Ethereum Blog, “Transaction Spam Attacks: Next Steps”, https://blog.ethereum.org/2016/09/22/transaction-spam-attack-next-steps/

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    “EVM 1.0 gas costs”, https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1m89CVujrQe5LAFJ8-YAUCcNK950dUzMQPMJBxRtGCqs/edit#gid=0

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    Github, “Ethereum Improvement Proposal 150”, https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/blob/master/EIPS/eip-150.md

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© 2018 Kedar Iyer and Chris Dannen

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Iyer, K., Dannen, C. (2018). Crypto-economics and Game Theory. In: Building Games with Ethereum Smart Contracts. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3492-1_6

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