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Cao, Tong (author), Decouchant, Jérémie (author), Yu, Jiangshan (author), Esteves-Veríssimo, Paulo (author)While previous works have discussed the network delay upper bound that guarantees the consistency of Nakamoto consensus, measuring the actual network latencies and evaluating their impact on miners/pools in Bitcoin remain open questions. This paper fills this gap by: (1) defining metrics that quantify the impact of network latency on the mining...conference paper 2021