Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC)
In this talk, I gave a presentation for our ACSAC22 paper “If You Can’t Beat Them, Pay Them: Bitcoin Protection Racket is Profitable”. We describe an attack called Fork Withholding Attack under a Protection Racket (FWAP), in which the mining pool pays the attacker for withholding a fork. [Slides] [ACSAC22 full program page]