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>Another option for how to deal with block withholding attacks: Give the
miner who finds the block a bonus.
...
>This must have been proposed before, right? Anyone know of a good analysis
of the game theory math?

Yes, Section 8.D. in Ittay's paper discusses this countermeasure, as well
as a few others:
    https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~ie53/publications/btcPoolsSP15.pdf

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<div dir=3D"ltr"><div>&gt;Another option for how to deal with block withhol=
ding attacks: Give the miner who finds the block a bonus.</div><div>...</di=
v><div>&gt;This must have been proposed before, right? Anyone know of a goo=
d analysis of the game theory math?</div><div><br></div>Yes, Section 8.D. i=
n Ittay&#39;s paper discusses=C2=A0this countermeasure, as well as a few ot=
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edu/~ie53/publications/btcPoolsSP15.pdf</a><br></div></div><div><br></div><=
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