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999 sats \ 5 replies \ @Undisciplined 15 Apr \ on: Bitcoin Math Puzzle #001: Selfish Mining Pt. 1 math bitcoin

I'm looking forward to where this ends up going.

Block discovery odds are equal to share of total hash on the network
P(Alice) = x
P(Bob) = 1-x

E[time to next block] = 10 min (given)

E[Alice reward] = P(Alice) * R = xR
E[Bob reward] = P(Bob) * R = (1-x)R

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25 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker OP 16 Apr

Congrats, this is the correct answer.

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25 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 16 Apr

yippee

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166 sats \ 1 reply \ @Murch 16 Apr

I was gonna write my own answer, but @Undisciplined’s answer matches my thinking.

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4 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 16 Apr

I'll need to crib off your sheet in the near future, I'm sure.

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55 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker OP 15 Apr

Should be fun to walk through it step by step

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