Bocart, Fabian - In: Journal of Risk and Financial Management 11 (2018) 4, pp. 1-18
Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin rely on a proof-of-work system to validate transactions and prevent attacks or double-spending. A new proof-of-work is introduced which seems to be the first number theoretic proof-of-work unrelated to primes: it is based on a new metric associated to the Collatz...