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- Sobel seminar room (South Hall 5607F)
Seminar by Pierre-Olivier Goffard (ISFA, University of Lyon, UCSB)
Title: Blockchain miners’ risk management
Abstract: A blockchain is a decentralized data ledger maintained by achieving consensus inside a peer-to-peer network. The operational cost associated to the consensus mechanism is borne by the node of the blockchain network and must be compensated by a reward. Insurance risk models are revisited in this context to study the profit and loss distribution of the nodes, referred to as miners in blockchains equipped with the proof-of-work protocol (used in the bitcoin blockchain for instance).
This talk presents the finding of two research papers available online at https://hal.archives-ouvertes.