selfish mining

Keyword reference — entries that mention this term in body prose.

Defined in: Bitcoin security model — attack surfaces, trust assumptions, and defense layers

2 entries reference this keyword in body prose.

Event January 3, 2009 Bitcoin Whitepaper

Bitcoin consensus design — proof of work, difficulty adjustment, and fork handling

How Bitcoin nodes agree on a single chain: SHA-256d proof of work, the difficulty adjustment algorithm, block validation rules, fork resolution, and probabilistic finality.

Event January 3, 2009 Bitcoin Whitepaper

Bitcoin monetary design — issuance schedule, fee market, and incentive structure

Bitcoin Institute ↔ Satoshi Nakamoto

How Bitcoin's 21 million cap emerges from a geometric halving series, how block rewards transition from subsidy to fees, and how the incentive model sustains honest mining.