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DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.Tokenomics.2019.3
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-119675
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2020/11967/
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Kiayias, Aggelos ; Livshits, Benjamin ; Monteoliva Mosteiro, Andrés ; Thyfronitis Litos, Orfeas Stefanos

A Puff of Steem: Security Analysis of Decentralized Content Curation

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Abstract

Decentralized content curation is the process through which uploaded posts are ranked and filtered based exclusively on users' feedback. Platforms such as the blockchain-based Steemit employ this type of curation while providing monetary incentives to promote the visibility of high quality posts according to the perception of the participants. Despite the wide adoption of the platform very little is known regarding its performance and resilience characteristics. In this work, we provide a formal model for decentralized content curation that identifies salient complexity and game-theoretic measures of performance and resilience to selfish participants. Armed with our model, we provide a first analysis of Steemit identifying the conditions under which the system can be expected to correctly converge to curation while we demonstrate its susceptibility to selfish participant behaviour. We validate our theoretical results with system simulations in various scenarios.

BibTeX - Entry

@InProceedings{kiayias_et_al:OASIcs:2020:11967,
  author =	{Aggelos Kiayias and Benjamin Livshits and Andr{\'e}s Monteoliva Mosteiro and Orfeas Stefanos Thyfronitis Litos},
  title =	{{A Puff of Steem: Security Analysis of Decentralized Content Curation}},
  booktitle =	{International Conference on Blockchain Economics, Security and Protocols (Tokenomics 2019)},
  pages =	{3:1--3:21},
  series =	{OpenAccess Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-108-5},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2020},
  volume =	{71},
  editor =	{Vincent Danos and Maurice Herlihy and Maria Potop-Butucaru and Julien Prat and Sara Tucci-Piergiovanni},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2020/11967},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-119675},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.Tokenomics.2019.3},
  annote =	{Keywords: blockchain, content curation, decentralized, voting}
}

Keywords: blockchain, content curation, decentralized, voting
Collection: International Conference on Blockchain Economics, Security and Protocols (Tokenomics 2019)
Issue Date: 2020
Date of publication: 17.03.2020

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