Paper Review - Bitcoin and Red Balloons
The paper by (Babaioff et al., 2012) demonstrates that the peer-to-peer layer and the gossip protocol are not always incentive compatible i.e., the participants do not internalize su...
Tag: economics
Paper Review - Economics of Blockchain
Blockchain-based Distributed Ledgers (DLs) promise to transform the existing financial system. The idea behind such a transformation is to replace centralized institutions that gover...
Paper Review - Flash Boys 2.0
I had the pleasure of attending a talk by Prof. Ari Juels at EPFL’s IC Research Day (2019) on Frontrunning in Decentralised Exchanges (DEXes). Interested readers can watch the talk h...