One additional thing that might be worth modeling a bit more is the actual impact of such an attack across a long sequence of blocks. Seems like some sort of Markov process with two states (Attacker mined previous block, and there is thus a delayed competition for the next block, or the next block is "fairly" mined).

I'm not immediately seeing closed form solution, so ran a quick simulation and found the following:

1% Attacker and X=10 minutes:

effective hash on delayed block = 2%, and over long chain unchanged at 1%

5% Attacker and X=11 minutes:

effective hash on delayed block = 10.6%, and over long chain 5.6%

10% Attacker and X=12 minutes:

effective hash on delayed block = 20.4%, and over long chain 11.3%

20% Attacker and X=14 minutes:

effective hash on delayed block = 39.3%, and over long chain 25%

Might also be interesting to see impact across difficulty adjustments (all other things being held constant), but haven't looked into that.

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Hey nostr:npub17u5dneh8qjp43ecfxr6u5e9sjamsmxyuekrg2nlxrrk6nj9rsyrqywt4tp not sure if you saw this. Fairly sure the correction is right, and if not I’d be interested to know what I got wrong

Yeah I'm gonna take a look once I'm done traveling.

Ah, very good. Safe travels!