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Possibility of broadcasting new block to only a fraction of honest nodes?

Consider in a block-withholding attack (aka selfish mining attack), attacker after creating a new block decides to broadcast this new block only to a fraction of network, such that eventually only a part of nodes will receive this new block and the…
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Just curious can you make $ off the spread?

I noticed there was a 2.5% spread on a certain exchange. Is there a way to make money from large spreads?
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The complete indifference by Bitcoin people is making me lose my enthusiasm for Bitcoin

I've been eagerly trying to spread the word about Bitcoin and running "Bitcoin Core" for a decade now. Every day, I hold on to this hope that it's going to explode "any day now"... but it never happens. Other than the sheer lack of adoption, I also…