Hello, author here. I haven't put a lot of thought into this yet, but my first guess is that this could become more of a problem with staking. Stakers still need to optimize, but all the easy ways are gone. Can't build better ASICs for staking.
Detection is hard. Like with selfish mining, it looks just like normal network operation in most cases. Most obvious mitigations don't work well either. E.g. we could try to establish canonical tx ordering in the tx pool. But then we would have to come to consensus about what the txpool is. Which is a bit of a chicken/egg problem.
Detection is hard. Like with selfish mining, it looks just like normal network operation in most cases. Most obvious mitigations don't work well either. E.g. we could try to establish canonical tx ordering in the tx pool. But then we would have to come to consensus about what the txpool is. Which is a bit of a chicken/egg problem.