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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: A question about miners choosing fork.
by
bettercrypto
on 16/05/2023, 09:27:25 UTC
When miner encountering a fork, one fork has less difficulty but longer in length, while the other fork is more difficult but short. Which fork should miners choose Smiley?

You know, the miner should choose to mine the longest chain that the network is likely to accept. Because mining a short chain will be pointless, because the network will eventually abandon that chain as well as I know and understand the point you are making.

And accidental hard fork are also relatively rare and resolved quickly as well too.