Block Withholding Attack
A Block Withholding Attack occurs when miners send fake hash contributions to harm the productivity of another mining pool.
Related terms
Blind Merge Mining
Blind Merge Mining allows miners to mine multiple cryptocurrencies simultaneously without exposing their primary operations.
Block
A block is a unit of data on a blockchain that contains transactions, a nonce, and a reference to the previous block.
Block Header
A block header contains metadata for a Bitcoin block, including its height, hash, timestamp, and Merkle root.
Block Height
Block height is the count of blocks preceding a particular block in the blockchain, starting from the genesis block.
Block Reward
Block reward is the incentive miners receive for solving a block.
Block Size
Block size refers to the amount of data that a block can contain, measured in bytes.