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When is Slower Block Propagation More Profitable for Large Miners?
June 12, 2023, 7:30 a.m. |
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ePrint Report: When is Slower Block Propagation More Profitable for Large Miners?
Zhichun Lu, Ren Zhang
For years, Bitcoin miners put little effort into adopting several widely-acclaimed block acceleration techniques, which, as some argued, would secure their revenues. Their indifference inspires a theory that slower block propagation is beneficial for some miners. In this study, we analyze and confirm this counterintuitive theory. Specifically, by modeling inadvertent slower blocks, we show that a mining coalition that controls more than a third …
bitcoin block eprint report inspires large miners report techniques theory
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