Quote from: bitmover on May 07, 2020, 04:24:18 AM

There are not multiple chains.
Those involuntary forks you are talking about happen when 2 miners find a block about the same time. But in the next block the situation is solved

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This definition comes from the technical glossary.

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When two or more blocks have the same block height, forking the block chain. Typically occurs when two or more miners find blocks at nearly the same time. Can also happen as part of an attack.

https://bitcoin.org/en/glossary/fork

You can track them here
https://www.blockchain.com/charts/n-orphaned-blocks

very few in the last years
https://api.blockchain.info/charts/preview/n-orphaned-blocks.png?timespan=all&h=405&w=720

Thanks for your response.
AYK there are times when SPV mining or Selfish mning happens & some pools/miners mine empty blocks only sending block reward to their address. In such situations they don't reveal their mind blocks making a secret chain until creating a longer chain thus dropping other candidate chains after a while.

I was wondering if there is a way to watch every candidate chain being created to see which chains & which blocks were mined through a selfish style. I know its hard to address this kind of attack using current protocol state, but may be there is a way to find some solution by watching/logging & analyzing pools/miners behaviors in the past.