> For example, what if other miners, instead of joining the selfish pool, decide to create their own competing selfish pools? I think the authors demonstrate w

> For example, what if other miners, instead of joining the selfish pool, decide to create their own competing selfish pools? I think the authors demonstrate why this would not be a preferable strategy: "above a certain threshold size, the revenue of a selfish pool rises superlinearly with pool size above its revenue with the honest strategy." So why create a new selfish pool when you could benefit more from joining the largest existing?