rich1.0npub1g6vxlp4e0nyhs2dqxxcryztyf5f5hyuaq93nw4r87zcnv0sdsa0qqsl5wdhttps://nostr.ae/npub1g6vxlp4e0nyhs2dqxxcryztyf5f5hyuaq93nw4r87zcnv0sdsa0qqsl5wdnjumphttps://nostr.ae📅 Original date posted:2014-04-23 📝 Original message:Bitcoin has various checks and balances that help keep everything honest. Even if a pool had 60% of the hashing power, they couldn't reverse 6 blocks without anyone noticing that it had happened. There are sites which monitor the blocks and estimate the percentage of the blocks found by each pool. In a way, bitcoin doesn't depend on the majority of miners following the protocol, it depends on miners believing that a majority of the other miners will follow the protocol. If a miner has 5% of the hashing power and believes that the other 95% will follow the protocol, then the system should be set up so that it is in that miner's interests to follow the protocol too. This is why soft forks work. The formal process convinces all the miners that the new rules are locked in. In a system where miners can vote to cancel coinbases, each pool has an incentive to vote to reject everyone else's blocks. Pools on the receiving end will be less profitable and lose customers. It is possible that "predatory" pools would lose hashing power as miners switch to other pools, in protest. The proposal allows "established" pools to vote to disallow new entrants. They could even justify it by saying that those pools haven't invested in "anti-double spending" infrastructure. The proposal doesn't suddenly give the majority the ability to do it, but it isn't clear that making the process less disruptive is a good thing. On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 7:37 PM, Mike Hearn <mike at plan99.net> wrote: > If you want to try and argue that the development list is the wrong place > to discuss development, please do so on another thread (or your blog). > Let's keep this thread for discussion of the original proposal - ideally, > discussed with the dryness that a topic as nerdy as distributed consensus > algorithms deserves ;) > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Start Your Social Network Today - Download eXo Platform > Build your Enterprise Intranet with eXo Platform Software > Java Based Open Source Intranet - Social, Extensible, Cloud Ready > Get Started Now And Turn Your Intranet Into A Collaboration Platform > http://p.sf.net/sfu/ExoPlatform > _______________________________________________ > Bitcoin-development mailing list > Bitcoin-development at lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20140423/2d0343ba/attachment.html>