Selfish Mining Simulator for Cryptocurrencies

Description

Software to simulate performing a selfish mining attack against certain cryptocurrencies' difficulty algorithms. Allows tweaking parameters of the attack and the difficulty algorithms themselves.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
0 https://github.com/usnistgov/SelfishMiningSim
0 https://doi.org/10.18434/M32160
47 https://data.nist.gov/od/ds/mds2-2160/SelfishMiningSim-master.zip.sha256
57 The code to run the selfish mining simulator. Requires the "go" language. The researchers' results were included in this download ("all_results.json"), and new results will be saved to "results.json" https://data.nist.gov/od/ds/mds2-2160/SelfishMiningSim-master.zip

Tags

  • blockchain
  • bitcoin
  • mining
  • cryptocurrency
  • cryptocurrency-mining
  • selfish-mining

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