Bengaluru BITDEVS: Stale Tip Relay

Two miners find a valid block at nearly the same time.
For a few seconds, different parts of the Bitcoin network may disagree about which block came first. Both blocks are valid. Both represent real proof of work. But only one continues into the chain.
The other becomes stale.
Most conversations treat stale blocks as discarded mining outcomes: unfortunate, rare, and economically costly. This session takes a different view.
We will be joined by Mr. Ram from Localhost a San Francisco based Bitcoin Research Center.
This is a technical, discussion-driven session.
We will begin with a clear primer on stale blocks before moving into the P2P proposal and its trade-offs. No code walkthrough is required, but familiarity with Bitcoin blocks, mining, nodes, and chain selection will help.
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