Gaming Self-Contained Provably Fair Smart Contract Casinos
Abstract
This paper discusses the game theory behind self-contained smart contract provably fair casinos, how they can be gamed by attackers with a large amount of money and computing power, as well as what are the necessary conditions to assure the system cannot be taken advantage of under various configurations.
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5195/ledger.2016.29
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