Proof of Work as a Three-Sided Market
Chris Berg, Sinclair Davidson, Jason Potts
Frontiers in Blockchain · 2020
doi:10.3389/fbloc.2020.00002 (opens in a new tab)
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Abstract
Blockchain technology is the distributed ledger technology underlying Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. We apply Oliver Williamson's transactions cost analysis to a proof of work blockchain consensus mechanism. Blockchains reduce the costs of opportunism, but are not “trustless.” We show that blockchains are trust machines. Blockchains provide for three-sided bargaining that convert energy-intensive computation into economically-valuable trust in a proof of work context.
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