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selfish mining: a standalone construct

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Computer security

a mining strategy in which a pool withholds found blocks to waste honest miners' work and earn more than its fair share of rewards.

In computer security, selfish mining refers to a mining strategy in which a pool withholds found blocks to waste honest miners' work and earn more than its fair share of rewards. This meaning comes from Eyal (2014) in Lecture Notes in Computer Science.[1]

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References

Eyal, I., & Sirer, E. G. (2014). Majority Is Not Enough: Bitcoin Mining Is Vulnerable. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 436-454). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45472-5_28

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