Selfish mining network with gamma = 0 is broken #36
Description
The selfish mining network as described in the following blog post is broken. Gamma=0 results in a devide-by-zero and hence unbounded message delays from attacker to defender. These message delays weaken the attacker.
https://pkel.github.io/cpr/blog/generalizing-selfish-minings-gamma/#constructing-a-network
As a hotfix, I've decreased the epsilon to 1e-9. This enables gamma=0.01 without risking significant message delays.
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It would be better to sample the message delays from a different interval. Maybe fix the interval length, then move it up or down to meet the given gamma. I recall that we had something like this before. Could be worth browsing the history of the network implementation.