a validation slowdown of about ~160x for the median peer could be observed. The median peer took about 20s to validate a slow-to-validate block, while a normal block on Signet would take the node 176ms.
Is this then something that a miner could use to enhance so-called selfish mining? (if they had a significant amount of hash rate)
did you guys simulate the worst case poison block possible? what was the worst validation time result ?
I'm interested in how bad it can get
This is detailed on https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/great-consensus-cleanup-revival/710#p-1996-worst-case-block-validation-time-5
Put it on spaghetti.net
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Is this then something that a miner could use to enhance so-called selfish mining? (if they had a significant amount of hash rate)
I don't see how that would help the miner. They could just withhold their block instead.
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