> if people published their private wallet addresses then yes. No. The entire point of public/private key pairs is that you can prove you own the pair without revealing the private key. https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/58792/proof-of-address-ownership
We can use the bitcoin ledger (blockchain) to see what address every mining reward went to. This mining pool needs to prove they own one or more of those addresses in order to be trusted. They do this by privately signing some arbitrary challenge using the private key associated with the public key to which the mining reward was assigned. That public key (that we know from looking at the blockchain owns the BTC awarded through mining) is then used to confirm the signature thus confirming that the mining pool does indeed own that key pair and therefor did actually receive the BTC for mining that block. We can then look at the BTC<->USD exchange rates and see if the payouts from this mining pool are within reason. On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 4:16 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <[email protected] > wrote: > On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 8:54 AM, Jean Flamelle <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > All in all, this type of speculation rewards gambling and malicious > > mass misinformation campaigns and I would not support it by > > participating. > > thank you, jean, for a really informative and insightful discourse. > your arguments are precisely why i will not participate in > crypto-currency trading. > > l. > > _______________________________________________ > arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] > http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook > Send large attachments to [email protected] > _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
