Analysis of Bitcoin Pooled Mining Reward Systems

2011/12/21 by Meni Rosenfeld, Rosenfeld, Meni · 6 citations
Business, Management and Accounting · Computer Science · #Big Data and Business Intelligence #Data Mining Algorithms and Applications #Distributed #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Parallel #Statistical and Computational Modeling #and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1112.4980

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Abstract

In this paper we describe the various scoring systems used to calculate rewards of participants in Bitcoin pooled mining, explain the problems each were designed to solve and analyze their respective advantages and disadvantages.

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