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WeAreDevelopers LIVE • Jul 28, 2020

Economic incentives and the Bitcoin network

Brendan Lee

Bitcoin’s economic design naturally forges a massively scalable, self-regulating platform for developers. Discover how embedded profit motives make honesty the only mathematically viable strategy for network miners.

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#1 about 4 min

Bitcoin as a peer-to-peer cash system with cooperative competition

How economic incentives encourage honest operation and distributed consensus among nodes.

#2 about 5 min

Broadcasting transactions across the small world consensus network

Why nodes are economically driven to broadcast new transactions rapidly across a highly dense core network.

#3 about 4 min

Constructing block templates and processing large merkle trees

How miners build block templates, manage coinbase transactions, and efficiently update merkle trees at scale.

#4 about 4 min

Finding proof of work to capture maximum utility value

The dual nature of proof of work involving handling transaction volume and solving the difficulty hash.

#5 about 4 min

Broadcasting solved blocks rapidly to prevent orphan races

Why transmitting new block solutions instantly is critical to securing rewards and avoiding wasted energy.

#6 about 4 min

Why selfish mining fails against honest node connectivity

How the dense connectivity of the honest core network naturally outpaces and defeats withheld block attacks.

#7 about 6 min

Optimizing block validation by pre-transmitting transaction ordering

Methods for nodes to validate merkle roots quickly by sharing transaction order prior to finding a solution.

#8 about 8 min

Expressing block acceptance and summarizing network scaling incentives

How building on accepted blocks aligns with long-term survival through high transaction volumes and open competition.

#9 about 4 min

Ensuring node honesty and punishing invalid block creation

The economic mechanisms that deter nodes from acting maliciously or producing invalid blocks.

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Blockchain network fundamentals and internal node architecture

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Emphasizing token utility for network code execution

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