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In scenario 1 the selfish pool will lose the block in most cases. Modern pools have a lot of connection to the network, so as not to waste mining on orphaned block. It will get the honest block before the selfish pool block.


Should Bitcoin security depend on the assumption of well-connected network?


Isn't that assumption already inherent to the design of Bitcoin?


This is interesting since I have found very little information about Bitcoin operating on poorly connected networks (i.e. most nodes are not directly reachable from any given node.) Given the current trend toward internet censorship, I wonder if Bitcoin will have to adapt to such networks as the norm.


It's worthwhile to an attacker to be well-connected. This might lead to a connectedness arms race.




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