📊 Cost Structure Highlights New Security Risks in the Bitcoin Network

📊 Cost Structure Highlights New Security Risks in the Bitcoin Network

Background
💡 According to the latest research findings, the security of the Bitcoin network depends not only on the total transaction fees paid over a period, but also on their distribution and balance between consecutive blocks.
🔥 The existence of a deep and sudden gap in the paid fees between two neighboring blocks increases the incentive for security disruptions.

Focus
🧐 Disruption in the fee balance of neighboring blocks leads to an intensification of aggressive competition among miners (Competing Blocks).
💡 This mismatch in block profitability slows down and irregularizes the mining process and the creation of subsequent blocks.
🔥 This revenue gap strengthens miners' incentives for malicious behaviors, including Fee-Sniping on previous block fees.

Consequences
💡 Increased probability of reorgs or the creation of competing transactions by opportunistic miners to capture exorbitant previous block fees.
🧐 The necessity of reviewing protocol and structural solutions to moderate fee fluctuations in the short term to maintain network stability.

Conclusion
🧐 The unbalanced fee distribution in consecutive blocks is a new security challenge that calls into question the stability and irreversibility of Bitcoin transactions.

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