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This article extends known results, showing all DSIC + MMIC + OCA‑proof auctions collapse to a trivial or constant‑burn class.

When Every Mechanism Burns Out: The Final Word on Blockchain Collusion Resistance

This article surveys research linking incentive design, collusion resistance, and mechanism feasibility in blockchain auctions.

The Research Roots of Collusion‑Resistant Crypto Auctions

Explore how auction mechanisms hold up under collusion, comparing SCP variants and OCA-proofness with concrete counterexamples and bidding strategies.

Why Your Auction Mechanism Might Be Vulnerable to Collusion

Your cheat sheet to understanding incentive-compatibility in transaction fee mechanisms—UIC, MIC, SCP, and the limits of truthfulness.

Why No Transaction Fee Mechanism Can Truly Be Collusion-Proof

How quantum computing and Generative AI will shape the future of modern-day encryption and cryptography.

Q-day is Imminent: How Modern-Day Quantum and AI Collusion Could Lead to The Death of Encryption

Discover a new key escrow method that prevents trustee collusion and boosts private key backup security using indirect-permission and digital signatures.

How to Prevent Trustee Collusion in Key Recovery Systems

Describes Bitcoin (2018–2020) and Ethereum (2021–2022) data sets, public‑tx bundling heuristic, and an active Bitcoin experiment revealing miner collusion.

How We Collected Bitcoin/Ethereum Data and Tested Miner Collusion

Patrick McGee describes the collusion between Google and Facebook.

Behind The Google and Facebook Collusion - A Thread

Special thanks to Glen Weyl, Phil Daian and Jinglan Wang for review

On Collusion

Incentive markets that use blockchain technology can create <a href="https://medium.com/@kk_ncnt/get-paid-for-what-you-know-or-can-easily-find-out-c93fc40510bf" target="_blank">trustless networks that efficiently solve problems</a> before dissolving shortly thereafter. These so-called “trust-less incentive markets” face a number of vulnerabilities worth investigating. One of the most well-known is <a href="https://medium.com/@kk_ncnt/the-tradeoff-between-virality-and-identity-8e2d12965308" target="_blank">the threat of a Sybil attack</a>, whereby fake identities are created by the attacker to gain more rewards than they are fairly owed. We’ve discussed in previous posts like <a href="https://medium.com/@kk_ncnt/beware-of-sybils-not-bearing-proof-of-work-230b2c6a307" target="_blank">this</a> and <a href="https://medium.com/@kk_ncnt/get-paid-for-what-you-know-or-can-easily-find-out-c93fc40510bf" target="_blank">this</a> a number of strategies that can mitigate the risk of Sybils.

Fighting Network Collusion at its Core

A word of warning: everything in this post is my opinion. It’s also a bit heavy on the technical stuff, but everything should be Google-able.

Bcash & Coinbase: collusion, manipulation, and FUD

A solo Bitcoin miner beat 1-in-a-million odds to win block 899826 in 2025. What this rare event reveals about mining, decentralization, and luck.

No Pool, No Problem: How One Solo Miner Won Big in a Network Built for Giants

AI leaderboards are collapsing under Goodhart’s Law. Discover why the next evolution is personal, decentralized, and self-centered.

AI Benchmarks: Why Useless, Personalized Agents Prevail

Inside Swarm: rollups, atomic claims, and an agent marketplace that rewards accuracy over noise.

Can AI Agents Fix The Internet’s Trust Problem?

New research shows no blockchain fee mechanism can be fully incentive-compatible and collusion-proof when block congestion occurs.

Why the Perfect Blockchain Fee Mechanism May Be Impossible

Cardano's unique architecture made bridging difficult. Apex Fusion now introduces Reactor and Skyline to solve it. Here's what it means.

Why Cardano Struggled with Cross-Chain Bridges and How Apex Fusion Plans to Fix It

Compare the failure rates of popular private key backup methods and discover why the indirect-permission method is the most secure and reliable option.

How Secure Are Private Key Backup Methods? A Comparative Study

Explore owner-possessed and escrow-based private key backup methods and the risks of theft, loss, and circular security issues.

The Original-Authenticator Approach to Private Key Recovery

A critical review of backup authentication methods reveals major security flaws in recovery systems like security questions, SMS, biometrics, and social auth.

Why Backup Authentication Methods Often Fail

A secure, collusion-proof method for private key recovery using social authentication and indirect-permission—six orders more reliable than existing methods.

Breaking the Circular Security Problem in Key Recovery

Brian Condenanza, tech investor, explains some of the least discussed dangers of AI in society & business. He also proposes mitigations for each problem.

Beyond the Usual Doom: Five AI Dangers Nobody Is Talking About

Miner collusion, hidden fees, and skewed voting reveal how blockchain systems fall short on fairness, transparency, and true decentralization.

What Happens When Blockchain Miners Cheat the System

Unfair mining, opaque fees, and token voter dominance are undermining blockchain's promise of transparency and decentralization.

Why Bitcoin and Ethereum May Not Be as Fair as You Think

This study reveals how miners deviate from fair transaction ordering in Bitcoin and Ethereum, backed by empirical data on private mining and dark fees.


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When Every Mechanism Burns Out: The Final Word on Blockchain Collusion Resistance

The Research Roots of Collusion‑Resistant Crypto Auctions

Why Your Auction Mechanism Might Be Vulnerable to Collusion

Why No Transaction Fee Mechanism Can Truly Be Collusion-Proof

Q-day is Imminent: How Modern-Day Quantum and AI Collusion Could Lead to The Death of Encryption

How to Prevent Trustee Collusion in Key Recovery Systems

How We Collected Bitcoin/Ethereum Data and Tested Miner Collusion

Behind The Google and Facebook Collusion - A Thread

On Collusion

Fighting Network Collusion at its Core

Bcash & Coinbase: collusion, manipulation, and FUD

No Pool, No Problem: How One Solo Miner Won Big in a Network Built for Giants

AI Benchmarks: Why Useless, Personalized Agents Prevail

Can AI Agents Fix The Internet’s Trust Problem?

Why the Perfect Blockchain Fee Mechanism May Be Impossible

Why Cardano Struggled with Cross-Chain Bridges and How Apex Fusion Plans to Fix It

How Secure Are Private Key Backup Methods? A Comparative Study

The Original-Authenticator Approach to Private Key Recovery

Why Backup Authentication Methods Often Fail

Breaking the Circular Security Problem in Key Recovery

Beyond the Usual Doom: Five AI Dangers Nobody Is Talking About

What Happens When Blockchain Miners Cheat the System

Why Bitcoin and Ethereum May Not Be as Fair as You Think

Uncovering Hidden Bias in Blockchain Transaction Ordering

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