The Economics of Blockchain Consensus: Exploring the Key Tradeoffs in Blockchain Design

Gans, Joshua

  • 出版商: Palgrave MacMillan
  • 出版日期: 2024-07-01
  • 售價: $1,730
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$1,644
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 124
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 3031330854
  • ISBN-13: 9783031330858
  • 相關分類: 區塊鏈 Blockchain經濟學 Economy
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商品描述

Blockchain technologies have been rapidly adopted for the creation of cryptocurrencies and have been explored for a myriad of applications. While this is of important economic interest, the computer science behind how blockchains operate to provide security and provenance has been largely inaccessible to economists. This book is a bridge between the computer science and the economics of blockchains.

The focus is on the value and the achievement of blockchain consensus; that is, how distributed and independent nodes are able to reach an agreement on what the current state of digital ledgers, that are the product of blockchains, are. The book shows that the goals of computer scientists in designing blockchains place very high weight on security beyond what an economist trained in game theory and mechanism design would require. It shows how blockchains can be redesigned to account for key economic trade-offs, and will be of interest to researchers and students of economics, financial technology and computer science, alongside policymakers.


作者簡介

Joshua Gans is a Professor of Strategic Management and holder of the Jeffrey S. Skoll Chair in Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. He is also chief economist of its Creative Destruction Lab and oversees its blockchain program for startups.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Joshua Gans 是多倫多大學羅特曼管理學院的戰略管理教授,以及傑佛瑞·S·斯科爾技術創新與創業講座的持有者。他同時也是該院創意破壞實驗室的首席經濟學家,負責監督其針對初創公司的區塊鏈計劃。