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Blockchain technology is a promising approach for solving the security and personal privacy problems in Internet applications. The successful commercial deployment of Blockchain markets relies on a comprehensive understanding of the economic and strategic interactions among different entities involved. In this paper, we focus on a blockchain market consisting of a blockchain platform (BP), multiple miners, and blockchain users (BUs), and formulate their interactions as a three-stage Stackelberg game. In Stage I, the BP strategizes the rewards granted to the miners, so as to attract the miners to contribute more computing power used for improving the security and privacy of the blockchain. In Stage II, each miner strategizes its computing power individually for winning the mining compe-tition, which is modeled as a non-cooperative game. In Stage III, the BUs strategize the transaction fee to acquire a …