SF Bitcoin Devs Seminar: 51% Attacks: Pools and Game Theory

Martin Köppelmann (https://twitter.com/koeppelmann) will present on 51% Attacks—Pools and Game Theory.

Martin is the founder of Fairlay (https://www.fairlay.com/), the largest Bitcoin prediction market and betting exchange. He has a developer background and used to be a poker professional and coach for poker and game theory. Martin is also working on a basic income based currency (https://ourbasicincome.wordpress.com/2015/06/18/circles-universal-basic-income/) on Ethereum.

"In this talk, I argue that 51% attacks are likely and hard to detect. I will give a game theoretic perspective on the block size limit, pool strategies, and how this relates to the long term security of the Bitcoin network."

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Post-talk mingling will commence @ 10pm at The House of Shields (https://www.google.com/maps/dir/717+Market+St,+San+Francisco,+CA+94103/The+House+Of+Shields,+39+New+Montgomery+St,+San+Francisco,+CA+94105,+United+States/@37.787768,-122.4036877,18z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x8085808f31f89e85:0xec1bbb4e9a79ccb1!2m2!1d-122.4039218!2d37.7870067!1m5!1m1!1s0x80858062a07fa93f:0x94ef3e221b1df369!2m2!1d-122.401349!2d37.788283!3e2) bar.