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.