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Selfish Mining

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Selfish mining is an incentive attack in which miners withhold privately found blocks and reveal them strategically to gain a chain-selection and propagation advantage over honest miners.

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Curated resources (3)

• Bitcoin Dev Project: Selfish Mining explained simply (article) Learner-facing explanation of the withholding strategy and incentive attack.
• Bitcoin Core Academy: P2P Attacks (article) Attack-model context for mining and network behavior.
• Mastering Bitcoin (book) Reference background for proof of work, mining incentives, and chain selection.

Direct prerequisites (2)

• Pool vs Solo Mining
• Reorgs and Finality

Direct dependents (0)

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