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Another problem with ASICBOOST is that it incentivizes a miner to try to partition the network such that the orphan rate increases, because mining on top of orp
by jlrubin 10y ago
Another problem with ASICBOOST is that it incentivizes a miner to try to partition the network such that the orphan rate increases, because mining on top of orphan blocks is more profitable.
If we have two competing successors (S_1 and S_2) to a Block B, an ASICBOOST miner can mine both simultaneously by creating Chunk 1's with different parent blocks.
I call it "The Oliver Twist Attack".
Increasing the Oprhan rate is incredibly costly to affected miners, this has the effect of making it also increase the hash rate of the attacker.
- jcoffland 10y agoThis would be easy to detect. Just look for miners who regularly revive orphaned blocks.