As malicious miners are incentivized by higher potential profits to attack or try to subvert the network, honest individuals are incentivized to prevent such behavior.
There’s a constant struggle to try to patch up the Bitcoin ecosystem to prevent anything that would completely destroy Bitcoin.
In this next section we’ll be taking a look at some of the defenses we have to counter selfish mining.
We’ll first take a look at some of the more naive defenses, and see what we can improve from there.