How Can Individual Miners Protect Themselves from a Pool Engaging in Selfish Mining?

Individual miners can protect themselves by choosing to mine with smaller, demonstrably honest mining pools to promote decentralization. They should also monitor the pool's stale block rate and the frequency of chain reorganizations, as a sudden, unusual increase in these metrics can indicate selfish mining activity.

Furthermore, supporting protocols that improve block propagation can reduce the selfish miner's advantage.