In Episode 6, we sit down with Matt Corallo and discuss his work on compact blocks and the FIBRE network.

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In this conversation we cover:

• Selfish mining (2:03)
  • Majority is not Enough: Bitcoin Mining is Vulnerable
  • Optimal Selfish Mining Strategies in Bitcoin
• Ethereum’s larger pools making superlinear profits (5:10)
• Defining selfish mining (9:52)
• Compact blocks (12:37)
  • FAQ
  • BIP152
  • Reference implementation
• FIBRE (20:28)
• forward error correction (24:14)
  • Shamir secret sharing
• Difference between TCP and UDP (29:21)

Thanks as always to Matthew Zipkin for the sound engineering.