Matt Corallo and Compact Blocks/FIBRE - Episode 6

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.