<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><author_name>npub1hn9vjtvdlnllrltesscgtnplu0ev2sreey03kjh3k07zmvd9zgus24p3n4</author_name><author_url>https://nostr.ae/npub1hn9vjtvdlnllrltesscgtnplu0ev2sreey03kjh3k07zmvd9zgus24p3n4</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://nostr.ae</provider_url><html>📅 Original date posted:2015-12-28&#xA;📝 Original message:&gt;&#xA;&gt; On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev &lt;&#xA;&gt; bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org&gt; wrote:&#xA;&gt; Far more concerning is network propagation effects between large and&#xA;&gt; small miners. For that class of issues, if you are in an environemnt&#xA;&gt; where selfish mining is possible - a fairly flat, easily DoS/sybil&#xA;&gt; attacked network topology - the profitability difference between small&#xA;&gt; and large miners even *without* attacks going on is a hugely worrying&#xA;&gt; problem. OTOH, if you&#39;re blocksize is small enough that propagation time&#xA;&gt; is negligable to profitability, then selfish mining attacks with &lt;30%&#xA;&gt; hashing power aren&#39;t much of a concern - they&#39;ll be naturally defeated&#xA;&gt; by anti-DoS/anti-sybil measures.&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&#xA;Let&#39;s agree that one factor in mining profitability is bandwidth/network&#xA;reliability/stability. Why focus on that vs electricity contracts or&#xA;vertically integrated chip manufacturers? Surely, sufficient network&#xA;bandwidth is a more broadly available commodity than &lt;$0.02/kwh&#xA;electricity, for example. I&#39;m not sure that your stranded hydroelectric&#xA;miner is any more desirable than thousands of dorm room miners with access&#xA;to 10gbit university connections and free electricity.&#xA;-------------- next part --------------&#xA;An HTML attachment was scrubbed...&#xA;URL: &lt;http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20151228/abe958d6/attachment.html&gt;</html></oembed>