Research corpusConsensusBLC-STUDY-0127
Stubborn Mining: Generalizing Selfish Mining and Combining with an Eclipse Attack
The paper generalises the withholding strategies and shows they compose with an eclipse attack that starves a node of honest blocks.
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Record
- Authors
- Kartik Nayak, Srijan Kumar, Andrew Miller and Elaine Shi
- Date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Kartik Nayak, Srijan Kumar, Andrew Miller and Elaine Shi
- Version
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- Document ID
- BLC-STUDY-0127
- DOI
- None recorded
- Last reviewed
- 1 October 2026
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Direct answer
The paper generalises the withholding strategies and shows they compose with an eclipse attack that starves a node of honest blocks.
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Relationships
- Canonical readingStubborn mining study
- Related paperSelfish Mining
- Related paperEclipse Attacks
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Author–date
Nayak, K., Kumar, S., Miller, A., & Shi, E. (2016). Stubborn Mining: Generalizing Selfish Mining and Combining with an Eclipse Attack. Kartik Nayak, Srijan Kumar, Andrew Miller and Elaine Shi. https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/796
BibTeX
@techreport{stubbornmining2016,
title = {Stubborn Mining: Generalizing Selfish Mining and Combining with an Eclipse Attack},
author = {Kartik Nayak, Srijan Kumar, Andrew Miller and Elaine Shi},
year = {2016},
institution = {Kartik Nayak, Srijan Kumar, Andrew Miller and Elaine Shi},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/796},
note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/stubborn-mining}
}RIS
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- Official source
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