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Merged Mining: Curse or Cure?

Merged mining lets the same proof of work stamp a child chain. Security is not transferred for free: the parent miners may not validate the child, and an attack on the child can be cheap in attention even when hash power is large.

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Authors: Aljosha Judmayer, Alexei Zamyatin, Nicholas Stifter, Artemios G. Voyiatzis and Edgar Weippl
Date: 2017
Publisher: Aljosha Judmayer, Alexei Zamyatin, Nicholas Stifter, Artemios G. Voyiatzis and Edgar Weippl
Version: Source cited by the 2017 study. The study is the reading. This page does not add a second essay.
Document ID: BLC-STUDY-0164
DOI: None recorded
Last reviewed: 1 October 2026
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Canonical readingMerged mining study
Related paperBitcoin Backbone
Related paperProofs of space

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Judmayer, A., Zamyatin, A., Stifter, N., Voyiatzis, A. G., & Weippl, E. (2017). Merged Mining: Curse or Cure?. Aljosha Judmayer, Alexei Zamyatin, Nicholas Stifter, Artemios G. Voyiatzis and Edgar Weippl. https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/791

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@techreport{mergedmining2017,
  title = {Merged Mining: Curse or Cure?},
  author = {Aljosha Judmayer, Alexei Zamyatin, Nicholas Stifter, Artemios G. Voyiatzis and Edgar Weippl},
  year = {2017},
  institution = {Aljosha Judmayer, Alexei Zamyatin, Nicholas Stifter, Artemios G. Voyiatzis and Edgar Weippl},
  url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/791},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/merged-mining}
}

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AU  - Edgar Weippl
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N1  - Rights status: Official external source only
ER  -

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