Selfish Mining

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In a selfish mining strategy, miners temporarily withhold discovered blocks from the public network.

• In a selfish mining strategy, miners temporarily withhold discovered blocks from the public network.
• Researchers modeled when selfish mining could become profitable for a coordinated pool.
• The protocol change aimed to reduce the advantage available from selfish mining.
• Selfish mining can waste honest miners' work by revealing a hidden chain at a strategic moment.
• A pool accused of selfish mining denied that it had deliberately withheld blocks.