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The Economic Limits of Bitcoin and the Blockchain Eric Budish June 5, 2018 AbstractThe amount of computational power devoted to anonymous, decentralized blockchainssuch as Bitcoin s must simultaneously satisfy two conditions in equilibrium: (1) a zero-profitcondition among miners, who engage in a rent-seeking competition for the prize associatedwith adding the next block to the chain; and (2) an incentive compatibility condition on thesystem s vulnerability to a majority attack , namely that the computational costs of such anattack must exceed the benefits.
The Economic Limits of Bitcoin and the Blockchain∗† EricBudish‡ June5,2018 Abstract The amount of computational power devoted to anonymous, decentralized blockchains
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