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by cryptobeanbaby 2886 days ago
>It's unclear what amount of correlation - if any at all - exists between miner control..

Manipulation of arbitrage and suppression/prioritization of transactions.

This was demonstrated in an attack on the Ethereum network by the mining pool F2Pool, where a timed smart contract was manipulated by the mining pool to prioritize its own transaction and ignore other users transactions.