Cornell researchers teach Bitcoin attack lesson in selfish mining

Wednesday, November 6, 2013 - 18:00 in Mathematics & Economics

(Phys.org) —Bitcoin is a digital currency that has, well, gained currency, as a medium of exchange. Now two computer science researchers from Cornell find that this extensive ecosystem can be undermined and they outline how in a paper that they have posted on arXiv.

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