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Selfish Mining Simulator for Cryptocurrencies

Software to simulate performing a selfish mining attack against certain cryptocurrencies' difficulty algorithms. Allows tweaking parameters of the attack and the difficulty algorithms themselves.

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Updated: 2025-04-06
Metadata Last Updated: 2019-11-12 00:00:00
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Title Selfish Mining Simulator for Cryptocurrencies
Description Software to simulate performing a selfish mining attack against certain cryptocurrencies' difficulty algorithms. Allows tweaking parameters of the attack and the difficulty algorithms themselves.
Modified 2019-11-12 00:00:00
Publisher Name National Institute of Standards and Technology
Contact mailto:[email protected]
Keywords Selfish mining , bitcoin , blockchain , mining , cryptocurrency , cryptocurrency mining
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