Statistical modeling of PoS systems with Tarun Chitra
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The Paper That Really Got Me Into Simulations for Fun
I started just reading academic papers. I think one of San Polinsky, Yotan Sanplenci's paper on, of Red Balloons in Bitcoin was one of the first academic papers I had remember reading. And then I kind of stayed on the sidelines in the sense of I didn't really contribute development wise. The paper that really had me following the literature a lot more was the ghost paper from 2015's. Basically, that was the paper that led to kind of a lot of the improvements that let Ethereum get to kind of the block production rate it has now.
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