[2015-10-19] The mining perspective for blockchain security

[LiteCoinGuy]

The mining perspective for blockchain security

When we discuss increasing the block size, the debate often revolves around the opposing forces of network scalability and network decentralization. Big blocks will require lots of bandwidth and other system resources to make it hard for your average home user to operate a full node, the argument goes. We also hear about how small time miners with low bandwidth could get attacked by big high bandwidth miners by creating artificially large (but valid) blocks to force small time miners to download them, increasing their orphan rate.

https://medium.com/@peoplma/bitcoin-s-block-size-debate-the-mining-perspective-for-blockchain-security-596ad1cc86a5