diff --git a/ch12_mining.adoc b/ch12_mining.adoc index 61aa3fd2..1506cccd 100644 --- a/ch12_mining.adoc +++ b/ch12_mining.adoc @@ -1222,7 +1222,7 @@ forks (in addition to other problems), so many people prefer Bitcoin's === Mining and the Hash Lottery -Bitcoin mining is an extremely competitive industry. +Bitcoin mining ((("bitcoins", "mining", "competitiveness of", id="bitcoin-mining-competition")))((("mining", "competitiveness of", id="mining-competitive")))is an extremely competitive industry. The hashing power has increased exponentially every year of Bitcoin's existence. Some years the growth has reflected a complete change of technology, such as in 2010 and 2011 when many miners switched from @@ -1461,7 +1461,7 @@ attack problem for Bitcoin itself. Rather, P2Pool makes Bitcoin more robust overall, as part of a diversified mining ecosystem. As of this writing, P2Pool has fallen into disuse, but new protocols such as Stratum v2 can allow individual miners to choose the transactions they -include in their blocks. +include in their((("bitcoins", "mining", "competitiveness of", startref="bitcoin-mining-competition")))((("mining", "competitiveness of", startref="mining-competitive"))) blocks. [[consensus_attacks]] === Hashrate Attacks