The publisher has asked me to write a version 2 to my textbook "Bitcoin: A Game-Theoretic Analysis"
The table of contents is here
Please let me know what's important to cover! Comment below would be great, or email me at my university address or protonmail (micahw and micah541) @ (uoregon.edu and proton.me) respectively.
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