The Chaincode Podcast

Matt Corallo and Compact Blocks/FIBRE - Episode 6

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


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.

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