What happens to a Kaspa miner's blocks when network connectivity is poor?
Poor connectivity makes a Kaspa miner's blocks less likely to earn rewards. In Kaspa's GHOSTDAG protocol, blocks compete to be included in the "blue set" — the agreed-upon chain of well-connected, timely blocks that receive credit. When a node has limited cross-cluster connections, it receives blocks from other parts of the network more slowly, which inflates its local anticone (the collection of blocks it hasn't seen yet). A bloated anticone signals to the rest of the network that your mined blocks arrived late and in isolation. For a beginner miner, this means poor internet connectivity doesn't just slow your experience — it directly reduces the chance that your mined blocks count toward a reward.