Doron Zeilberger

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1 Paper

COAug 15, 2018
A Combinatorial-Probabilistic Analysis of Bitcoin Attacks

Evangelos Georgiadis, Doron Zeilberger

Using Wilf-Zeilberger algorithmic proof theory, we continue pioneering work of Meni Rosenfeld (followed up by interesting work by Cyril Grunspan and Ricardo Perez-Marco) and study the probability and duration of successful bitcoin attacks, but using an equivalent, and much more congenial, formulation as a certain two-phase soccer match.