From: Jeremy Rubin

From: Jeremy Rubin To: "Jeffrey E." <jeevacation®gmail.com> Subject: Re: BTC Game Theory Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 20:47:18 +0000 For me I usually don't even have to try for the observer to get that impression, very effective strategy, minimal effort. Sure, game theory has ifs flaws (rational assumption in backwards induction being a major fail point), but can be useful for getting a handle on complex systems. WeremyRubin On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 4:45 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: one weakness in the game theory approach is it does not have an observer. . it is the right strategy to always play rock, if you would like the observer to think you are an idiot On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 4:40 PM, Jeremy Rubin a- wrote: Jeffrey, Tums out one of Martin's students, Julian is in my class. We chatted afterwards, I figured you'd like some of these links so forwarding... I particularly recommend Fake Version Changing, Gap Mining, and Selfish mining, the other stuff is more introductory on Bitcoin's model. @Jerem Rubin Forwarded messa e From: Jeremy Rubin Date: Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 4:39 PM Subject: BTC Game Theory To: Hi Julian, Was great talking with you after class. I definitely think you should think about doing some Bitcoin research at PED — here are some links to get you going (don't be overloaded by them, but there is good shit here! Maybe PED should do a reading group): http://www.jbonneau.com/doc/BMCNKF15-IEEESP-bitcoin.pdf < General intro to btc https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/game-theory-and-bitcoin/ < Game theory intro on btc https://freedom-to-tinker.comiblog/randomwalker/bitcoin-and-game-theory-were-still-scratching-the-surface/ < Game theory intro http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/—yoadlew/bitcoin.pdf < Mining Game theory http://arxiv.orglabs/1311.0243 < selfish mining paper http://hackingdistributed.com/2014/01/15/detecting-selfish-mining/ < detecting selfish miners hrips://eprint.iacr.org/2015/796.pdf < Generalizing the model of selfish mining https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/131764/Web/bitcoin mind the ga%pdf < Gap mining EFTA00714127 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1154520.0 < Fake version changing My philosophical POV is that bitcoin is a lot like the bourgeois strategy in hawk dove — it provides a common rule we can defect to reliably for resolving disputes. But there's so much more layered in how that rule gets made. Cheers, Jeremy please note The information contained in this communication is confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may constitute inside information, and is intended only for the use of the addressee. It is the property of WE Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by return e-mail or by e-mail to jeevacation@gmail.com, and destroy this communication and all copies thereof, including all attachments. copyright -all rights reserved EFTA00714128