Monday, July 15, 2024I have recently been looking at mining pool behavior during forks. Which block does a pool choose to mine on during a fork? Do they behave rationally and mine on their own block? In this post, I’ll detail the mining pool game theory during forks and give some recent examples of pool behavior.I’ve also published a short-form video1 on this topic on Twitter and YouTube.In Bitcoin, a blockchain fork usually happens when two mining pools find a block based on the same previous b...