Simulating fraudolent mining strategies in a simplified Bitcoin Network
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The goal of the project is the evaluation of the Bitcoin mining process, through its simulation in TinyCoin, a simplified version of Bitcoin. In particular, it is required to consider one or more fraudolent versions of the mining process and to compare them with the standard mining process/between themselves. In TinyCoin, each user has a single address and the transactions are simplified with respect to Bitcoin as follows:
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