This is likely true, and I wanted to try explaining it, but I only had time to write a comment and not a journal article. Suffice it to say that the Bitcoin co

This is likely true, and I wanted to try explaining it, but I only had time to write a comment and not a journal article. Suffice it to say that the Bitcoin community widely believes what I wrote, and that interested HNers should look up the actual journal article about selfish mining, which is really accessible (well, by the standard of writing about Bitcoin).