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A scalable verification solution for blockchains

Pay a solver to run a heavy computation off-chain, and pay a verifier only when they find a lie. An interactive game narrows the lie to one step. A jackpot is there so verifiers show up even when solvers are usually honest.

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Authors: Jason Teutsch and Christian Reitwiessner
Date: 2017
Publisher: Jason Teutsch and Christian Reitwiessner
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Document ID: BLC-STUDY-0078
DOI: None recorded
Last reviewed: 1 October 2026
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Teutsch, J., & Reitwiessner, C. (2017). A scalable verification solution for blockchains. Jason Teutsch and Christian Reitwiessner. https://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~teutsch/papers/truebit.pdf

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  title = {A scalable verification solution for blockchains},
  author = {Jason Teutsch and Christian Reitwiessner},
  year = {2017},
  institution = {Jason Teutsch and Christian Reitwiessner},
  url = {https://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~teutsch/papers/truebit.pdf},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/truebit}
}

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