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§6.9 flagged multi-coalition selfish mining as conjectural on two counts taken from the literature — that splitting a coalition can deflate D-hat FURTHER than one coalition of the same size, and that individually sub-threshold coalitions can be jointly profitable. With rival private chains in the engine, both are now measured (scripts/multi_coalition.py, fig39), and they point opposite ways. DEFLATION — REFUTED. Splitting a fixed stake into K rivals reduces estimator damage, monotonically, at every beta and K tested (t = 4.3 to 14.3): beta K=1 K=2 K=3 K=4 0.20 0.908 0.928 0.922 0.928 0.30 0.778 0.858 0.880 0.880 0.40 0.586* 0.764 0.807 0.823 The mechanism shows in the fork structure: a lone coalition holds one private chain ~2000 blocks deep, while two rivals cut each other to depth ~2. Rivals spend their advantage burying each other instead of honest work. So D-hat ~ 0.70 at alpha = 0.4 IS an upper bound on multi-coalition deflation, not the under-estimate §6.9 warned it might be. (* boundary-affected: 66% of that cell's adversarial blocks were still private at epoch end even with the lead cap. The 0.2 and 0.3 rows have <1% stranding and carry the result alone.) THRESHOLD — CONFIRMED, and 1/3 does not hold at this load: one coalition at 0.200 0.875x t = -2.5 does not pay one coalition at 0.295 1.232x t = 2.7 PAYS two rivals at 0.200 each 1.045x t = 2.5 each PAYS three rivals at 0.133 each 0.852x t = -5.1 does not pay Two results against the folklore. A single coalition already profits at alpha ~ 0.295, because the honest network forks at ~0.48 here so the public chain's HEIGHT advances at only (1-a)*f*(1-fork) while a coalition sharing one view extends privately at the full a*f — the threshold falls with the fork rate. And a 0.20 coalition that does NOT pay alone DOES pay against a second 0.20 rival: the rival displaces honest blocks too and both collect on the disruption. That is the "individually sub-threshold, jointly profitable" case, confirmed at K = 2 and not extending to K >= 3. The practical split: coalition fragmentation is good for TSI's estimator and bad for the incentive argument. "No coalition holds 1/3" is not a safety property at a load where the honest network forks appreciably, which makes rho < 1 an incentive constraint and not only an accuracy one. §8.3 item 2 narrowed accordingly; fig39 marks boundary-affected cells hollow. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Python
233 lines
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Python
"""Do K rival selfish coalitions deflate D-hat further than one coalition of the same size? (fig39)
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§6.9 settles the *withholding* commons exactly — deflation depends on the total abstaining stake
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and not on how it is partitioned — and then flags the selfish case as conjectural, on two counts
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taken from the literature:
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(a) total orphaning, hence raw D-hat deflation, *can exceed* the single-coalition value, so the
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§6.6 figure at alpha = 0.4 is not a multi-coalition upper bound; and
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(b) several individually sub-threshold coalitions may be *jointly* profitable, i.e. the 1/3
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threshold is not a per-coalition safety argument.
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Both are now testable. The per-node engine runs one private chain per coalition, and a rival's
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unreleased blocks are invisible to every other coalition by the same arrival sentinel that hides
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them from honest nodes — so the chains race each other as well as the public chain, which is the
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whole mechanism the conjecture rests on. `adversary_coalitions = K` splits a fixed adversarial
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stake into K near-equal rivals (`engine._coalition_ids`), holding beta constant so K is the only
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thing that moves.
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Two arms:
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* **accuracy** — D-hat/D, fork rate and p_ref against (beta, K), which answers (a) directly;
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* **profitability** — each coalition's share of the canonical chain against its OWN stake, which
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answers (b). A coalition profits when its canonical share exceeds its stake share; the joint
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question is whether that holds for every one of K rivals that are each below 1/3.
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Both arms record the REALISED stake shares rather than trusting the knob. That is no longer a
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correction for the sizing defect §9 describes (fixed: the coalition now lands within 0.1 % of its
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label), but it stays because a Pareto draw can still leave `beta` unreachable — one holder above
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the target — and the split into K rivals is only as even as the tail permits.
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Run: python scripts/multi_coalition.py (writes runs/multi_coalition{,_split}.parquet + fig39)
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"""
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from __future__ import annotations
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from pathlib import Path
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import numpy as np
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import pandas as pd
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from joblib import Parallel, delayed
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from tsi_sim import lottery, topology
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from tsi_sim.blocktree import build_tree_pernode
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from tsi_sim.config import SimConfig
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from tsi_sim.engine import _adversary_mask, _coalition_ids, run_trajectory
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from tsi_sim.epoch import _canonical_producer_split
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from tsi_sim.plotting import style
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from tsi_sim.rng import seedseq_for
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from tsi_sim.stake import stake_for
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HERE = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent
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RUNS = HERE / "runs"
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FIGS = HERE / "report-figures"
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RUNS.mkdir(exist_ok=True)
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FIGS.mkdir(exist_ok=True)
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REPS = 10
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N_JOBS = 10
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BETAS = [0.2, 0.3, 0.4]
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KS = [1, 2, 3, 4]
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# Full scan / no prune: the selfish path forces both anyway (a private chain's release reorders
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# the fork-choice frontier), stated here so the geometry is explicit rather than implied.
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BASE = dict(n_nodes=600, stake_dist="pareto", topology="blend", degree=6,
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link_latency_mean=0.5, link_latency_dist="geo", blend_hops=3, blend_delay_max=8.0,
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max_uncles=2, uncle_strategy="oldest", window_absorption=10.0,
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k=256, epochs=10, genesis_d_factor=0.5, early_stop=False,
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adversary_strategy="selfish", prune_arrival=False, windowed_fork_choice=False)
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def _accuracy(beta: float, K: int, rep: int) -> dict:
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"""What K rivals at a fixed total stake do to the estimator."""
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cfg = SimConfig(**BASE, adversary_frac=beta, adversary_coalitions=K, replicate=rep)
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t = pd.DataFrame(run_trajectory(cfg))
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t = t[t.epoch >= t.epoch.max() // 2]
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adv, hon = t.adv_blocks.sum(), t.honest_blocks.sum()
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return dict(beta=beta, K=K, rep=rep, mean_ratio=float(t.mean_ratio.mean()),
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fork_rate=float(t.fork_rate.mean()), p_ref=float(t.p_ref.mean()),
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mean_orphan_rate=float(t.mean_orphan_rate.mean()),
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joint_share=float(adv / (adv + hon)) if adv + hon else 0.0)
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def _profit(beta: float, K: int, rep: int, ratio: float) -> list[dict]:
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"""Each coalition's canonical share against its own stake, on one rebuilt epoch.
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``ratio`` is the accuracy arm's measured ``D-hat/D`` for this cell, and it matters: the
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lottery is driven by the estimate, so rebuilding at the GENESIS d_est would produce blocks at
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roughly twice the equilibrium rate and measure profitability in a regime the chain never
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occupies. Seeding at ``ratio * D_true`` puts the rebuild at the operating point the
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trajectory actually converges to under this attack.
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"""
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cfg = SimConfig(**{**BASE, "epochs": 2}, adversary_frac=beta,
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adversary_coalitions=K, replicate=rep)
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kids = seedseq_for(cfg).spawn(cfg.epochs + 3)
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stake = stake_for(cfg)
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mask = _adversary_mask(cfg, stake)
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ids = _coalition_ids(cfg, stake, mask)
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pl = topology.build_path_latency(cfg, np.random.default_rng(kids[1]))
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d = np.full(cfg.n_nodes, max(ratio, 0.05) * float(stake.sum()))
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ws, wn = lottery.sample_wins(lottery.win_probs(stake, d, cfg.f), cfg.epoch_len,
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np.random.default_rng(kids[3]))
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slots, groups = lottery.group_by_slot(ws, wn)
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tree, A = build_tree_pernode(slots, groups, pl, cfg, np.random.default_rng(kids[4]),
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adversary_mask=mask, coalition_ids=ids)
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total = float(stake.sum())
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# Blocks that reached nobody: private chains still hidden when the epoch ended. The lead cap
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# should keep this near zero — a large value means `wait` stopped terminating and the arm is
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# measuring the epoch boundary rather than the attack, so it is reported, not assumed away.
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adv_blk = np.array([bool(mask[int(tree.leader[b])]) for b in range(1, tree.n_blocks)])
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never = (A[:, 1:] > cfg.epoch_len).all(axis=0)
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stranded = float((adv_blk & never).sum() / max(int(adv_blk.sum()), 1))
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# K == 1 has no id vector (the single-coalition path is left untouched), so synthesise one.
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groups_of = [mask] if ids is None else [ids == g for g in range(K)]
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out = []
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for g, gmask in enumerate(groups_of):
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won, hon = _canonical_producer_split(tree, A, gmask, cfg.period_T, cfg.epoch_len)
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out.append(dict(beta=beta, K=K, rep=rep, coalition=g, stranded=stranded,
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stake_share=float(stake[gmask].sum() / total),
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canonical_share=float(won / (won + hon)) if won + hon else 0.0))
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return out
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def sweep() -> tuple[pd.DataFrame, pd.DataFrame]:
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jobs = [(b, k, r) for b in BETAS for k in KS for r in range(REPS)]
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par = Parallel(n_jobs=N_JOBS, backend="loky", inner_max_num_threads=1)
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acc = pd.DataFrame(par(delayed(_accuracy)(*j) for j in jobs))
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# the profit arm rebuilds at each cell's MEASURED operating point, so accuracy runs first
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at = {(r.beta, r.K, r.rep): r.mean_ratio for r in acc.itertuples()}
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spl = pd.DataFrame([r for rows in par(delayed(_profit)(b, k, rp, at[(b, k, rp)])
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for b, k, rp in jobs) for r in rows])
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acc.to_parquet(RUNS / "multi_coalition.parquet", index=False)
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spl.to_parquet(RUNS / "multi_coalition_split.parquet", index=False)
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return acc, spl
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def report(acc: pd.DataFrame, spl: pd.DataFrame) -> None:
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print("\n=== (a) does splitting the SAME stake deflate D-hat further? ===")
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# MEDIAN, not mean: the deflation feedback of §6.2 is bistable, so a cell that drops a
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# replicate onto the collapsed branch has a bimodal sample and its mean sits between two
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# branches, describing neither. `low` counts those replicates so the tail stays visible.
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print(f"{'beta':>6} {'K':>3} | {'median D_hat/D':>15} {'IQR':>15} {'low':>4} "
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f"{'fork':>6} {'p_ref':>7} {'joint sh':>9}")
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for b in BETAS:
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for k in KS:
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g = acc[(acc.beta == b) & (acc.K == k)]
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med = g.mean_ratio.median()
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lo, hi = g.mean_ratio.quantile(0.25), g.mean_ratio.quantile(0.75)
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n_low = int((g.mean_ratio < med - 0.15).sum())
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print(f"{b:6.2f} {k:3d} | {med:15.4f} {f'[{lo:.3f}, {hi:.3f}]':>15} {n_low:4d} "
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f"{g.fork_rate.median():6.3f} {g.p_ref.median():7.3f} "
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f"{g.joint_share.median():9.4f}")
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one = acc[(acc.beta == b) & (acc.K == 1)].mean_ratio.median()
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by_k = acc[acc.beta == b].groupby("K").mean_ratio.median()
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worst, got = by_k.idxmin(), by_k.min()
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verdict = ("SPLITTING DEFLATES FURTHER" if got < one - 0.005
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else "the single coalition bounds it")
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print(f" -> worst K = {worst} at {got:.4f} vs K=1 {one:.4f}: {verdict}\n")
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print("=== (b) are individually sub-threshold coalitions each profitable? ===")
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print(f"{'beta':>6} {'K':>3} | {'own stake':>10} {'canonical':>10} {'ratio':>8} "
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f"{'stranded':>9} verdict")
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for b in BETAS:
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for k in KS:
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g = spl[(spl.beta == b) & (spl.K == k)]
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st, cs = g.stake_share.median(), g.canonical_share.median()
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strand = g.stranded.median()
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sub = "sub-1/3" if st < 1 / 3 else "over-1/3"
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pays = "PAYS" if cs > st * 1.005 else "does not pay"
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# A stranded fraction above ~0.2 means private chains were still hidden at the epoch
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# boundary, so the cell measures the boundary and not the attack — flag, do not hide.
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flag = " <-- BOUNDARY-DOMINATED" if strand > 0.2 else ""
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print(f"{b:6.2f} {k:3d} | {st:10.4f} {cs:10.4f} {cs / st:8.3f} {strand:9.3f} "
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f"{sub}, {pays}{flag}")
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print()
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def fig39(acc: pd.DataFrame, spl: pd.DataFrame) -> None:
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import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
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style.apply_style()
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fig, axes = plt.subplots(1, 2, figsize=(9.6, 3.8))
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ax = axes[0]
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for i, b in enumerate(BETAS):
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g = (acc[acc.beta == b].groupby("K").mean_ratio.agg(["mean", "sem"]).reset_index())
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ax.errorbar(g.K, g["mean"], yerr=g["sem"], marker="o", ms=4, capsize=2,
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color=style.OKABE_ITO[i + 1], label=rf"$\beta$ = {b:.1f}")
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ax.axhline(1.0, color="0.5", lw=0.9, ls="--")
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ax.set_xticks(KS)
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ax.set_xlabel("number of rival coalitions $K$ (total stake held fixed)")
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ax.set_ylabel(r"$\hat D / D^*$")
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ax.set_title("Accuracy vs how the same stake is split")
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ax.legend(fontsize=7)
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ax = axes[1]
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flagged = False
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for i, b in enumerate(BETAS):
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g = spl[spl.beta == b].groupby("K")[["stake_share", "canonical_share"]].mean()
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strand = spl[spl.beta == b].groupby("K").stranded.mean()
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ratio = g.canonical_share / g.stake_share
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ax.plot(g.index, ratio, marker="o", ms=4, color=style.OKABE_ITO[i + 1],
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label=rf"$\beta$ = {b:.1f}")
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# A cell whose private chains were still hidden at the epoch boundary is measuring the
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# boundary, not the attack. Draw it hollow so the curve cannot be read as if every point
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# carried the same weight — the §6.9 text says the same thing in words.
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bad = strand > 0.2
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if bad.any():
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flagged = True
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ax.plot(ratio.index[bad], ratio[bad], "o", ms=9, mfc="none", mew=1.4,
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color=style.OKABE_ITO[i + 1], zorder=5)
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ax.axhline(1.0, color="0.5", lw=0.9, ls="--")
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if flagged:
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ax.annotate("hollow: private chains\nstranded at epoch end\n(read as directional)",
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xy=(0.30, 0.04), xycoords="axes fraction", fontsize=6, color="0.35")
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ax.set_xticks(KS)
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ax.set_xlabel("number of rival coalitions $K$")
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ax.set_ylabel("canonical share / own stake\n(per coalition; > 1 = selfish mining pays)")
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ax.set_title("Profitability of each rival")
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ax.legend(fontsize=7)
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style.save(fig, FIGS / "fig39_multi_coalition", provenance="scripts/multi_coalition.py")
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plt.close(fig)
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def main() -> None:
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print("=== K rival selfish coalitions at fixed total stake (§6.9) ===")
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acc, spl = sweep()
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report(acc, spl)
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fig39(acc, spl)
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print(f"wrote {RUNS}/multi_coalition{{,_split}}.parquet + fig39")
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if __name__ == "__main__":
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main()
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