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On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 2:44 PM, Sam Huntress <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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 sorry: i meant, everyone has a private wallet into which they're receiving bitcoin. the public key of that wallet is put into their management console web front-end. > 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. ok so... does this assume that we can find out what the public key of people's "receive" wallets actually are? here's one (mine): 19trK4AVnCC1YHdJfgWWfpZ9c2uLociNjQ so it should be possible to do a proof-of-concept... ahh... except i'm not planning to actually take any BTC out in the immediate future... ok i could transfer *something* out, like $10 or something. getting hold of anyone else's public-key for their wallets means doing a *lot* of trawling of youtube and/or looking online for screenshots that people might have accidentally published via the various "hey this is real sign up under me" jobbie videos. > We can then look at the BTC<->USD exchange rates and see if the payouts > from this mining pool are within reason. i also found a page that shows how many "Founders" there are. a "Founder" is defined as "anyone who has at least a $3500 share in the three mining pools". there were around 14,000 such people as of arouuund.... november 1st. it should be possible to make a guestimate of the total number of people in the network based on that, if we make some conservative guesses about the ratio of the number of people who did *not* by full shares vs those who bought partial shares. it's quite a lot of assumptions.... it'd do for a start. y'know what... we could... um... just... ask them :) l. _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
