1st Edition
Mathematical Foundations of Blockchains Engineering Principles, Volume 2
Preface List of Commonly Used Sets Part I. Blockchain Formalization 1. A High-Level Blockchain Description 2. Blockchain Throughput and Block-Size Depend 3. Double-Spending Attack, Selfish Mining, and Private-Chain Attack 4. Forking, Sharding, and Energy Consumption in Blockchains 5. Robustness of the Nakamoto Consensus Protocol 6. Analysis of Blockchain Economics 7. Game-Theoretic Blockchain Models 8. Blockchains and Trust 9. Tangle Distributed Ledger 10. Decentralized Finance Analysis and Blockchains 11. Blockchains and Differential Privacy 12. Blockchains and the Quantum Revolution Part II. Miscellaneous Acronyms Glossary Bibliography
Biography
Nirdosh Bhatnagar works in both academia and industry in Silicon Valley, California. He is also the author of two comprehensive two-volume works, Mathematical Principles of the Internet and Introduction to Wavelet Transforms published by CRC Press. Nirdosh earned a MSc in Operations Research and MSc and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, California.
