https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1709.08750/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17115156urn:hackerpapers:mention:1709.08750:17115156Sun, 20 May 2018 22:47:24 GMT<p>&gt; PoW mining opens selfish mining strategies This isn&#x27;t really true. It&#x27;s true of Bitcoin but selfish mining is an artifact of Bitcoin&#x27;s sloppy way of estimating how much work is being done, not an artifact of PoW. An enhancement like Bobtail [1] eliminates the incentive to selfishly mine by improving the network&#x27;s ability to estimate the network hash strength. [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.08750</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1709.08750/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.CRhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16024744urn:hackerpapers:mention:1709.08750:16024744Thu, 28 Dec 2017 20:43:11 GMT<p>This comment is correct, I&#x27;ve heard the property described as &quot;probabilistic consensus&quot;. However, this part is wrong: &gt; Because of finite propagation delays and network packet loss, there are normally multiple valid chains at any given moment in time. How often forks occur is a property of a specific system, not of &quot;blockchain&quot; in general. Bitcoin, for instance, usually does not have multiple chains. They do sometimes happen but generally the orphan rate is quite low. Ethereum has a much higher block rate so propagation delays are more important and forks happen there much more often. There&#x27;s…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1709.08750/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.CR