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   <li><b>Lecture 8 (Tue Oct 5):</b>
-Nakamoto/longest-chain consensus.
-    Proof-of-work sybil resistance.
-	Supplementary reading:
+    Longest-chain consensus.
+    Supplementary reading:
     <ul>
       <li>The <a href="https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf">Bitcoin white paper</a>, 2008.
       <li>I. Abraham and D. Malkhi, <a href="https://dahliamalkhi.github.io/files/BlockchainBFT-BEATCS2017.pdf">The Blockchain Consensus Layer and BFT</a>, Bulletin of the EATCS, 2017.
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       <li>R. Pass, L. Seeman, and a. shelat, <a href="https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/454.pdf">Analysis of the Blockchain Protocol in Asynchronous Networks</a>, EUROCRYPT, 2017.
 	<li>A. Dembo, S. Kannan, E. N. Tas, D. Tse, P. Viswanath, X. Wang, and O. Zeitouni, <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.10484.pdf">Everything is a Race and Nakamoto Always Wins</a>, CCS, 2020.
 	</ul>
-
+    <ul>
+      <li>The <a href="https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf">Bitcoin white paper</a>, 2008.
+</ul>
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-    <li><b>Lecture 9 (Thu Oct 7):</b> Selfish mining.
-	Supplementary reading:
-
+    <li><b>Lecture 9 (Thu Oct 7):</b> The permissionless setting.  Proof-of-work sybil-resistance.  Difficulty adjustment.
+    Supplementary reading:
+    <ul>
+      <li>The <a href="https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf">Bitcoin white paper</a>, 2008.
+      <li>R. Pass and E. Shi, <a href="https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/302.pdf">Rethinking Large-Scale Consensus</a>, 2018.
+      <li>A. Lewis-Pye and T. Roughgarden,
+	<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2101.07095.pdf">Byzantine Generals in the Permissionless Seing</a>, 2021.
+</ul>
+	Historical readings:
+    <ul>
+      <li>C. Dwork and M. Naor, <a href="https://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~naor/PAPERS/pvp.pdf">Pricing via Processing or Combatting Junk Mail</a>, CRYPTO '92.
+	<li>A. Back, <a href="http://www.hashcash.org/hashcash.pdf">Hashcash - A Denial of Service Counter-Measure</a>, 2002.
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-    <li><b>Lecture 10 (Tue Oct 12):</b> Proof-of-stake sybil resistance.
+    <li><b>Lecture 10 (Tue Oct 12):</b> Selfish mining. Proof-of-stake sybil resistance.
 	Supplementary reading:
 
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