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The goal of this paper is to establish the general framework of consensus equilibria for Mining Pool Games in Blockchain Ecosystems, and in particular to explain the stable in the sense for the existence of consensus equilibria related to mining gap game’s behaviors by using one new concept called “Consensus Games” under the environment of Blockchain Ecosystems, where, the Blockchain Ecosystem mainly means the economic activities by taking into the account of three fundamental factors which are “Expenses, Reward Mechanism and Mining Power” for the work on blockschain by applying the key consensus called “Proof of Work” due to Nakamoto in 2008 and related ones.
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All authors thank the professional service and hardwork provided by the organization committee for Blocksys’2020. This research was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under the grant numbers U1811462 and 11501349.
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Di, L. et al. (2020). The Framework of Consensus Equilibria for Gap Games in Blockchain Ecosystems. In: Zheng, Z., Dai, HN., Fu, X., Chen, B. (eds) Blockchain and Trustworthy Systems. BlockSys 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1267. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9213-3_4
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