On Wednesday, October 23, 2013 9:42:14 PM Allen Piscitello wrote: > That being said, it's a huge chicken and egg problem. No one wants to go > off the reference client since it could lead to working on a forked chain > as a miner or having bad data as a client.
Thankfully, miners are incentivised to run one of every widespread node to ensure their blocks are accepted by the network. Eloipool already supports cross-referencing block templates between multiple clients and using the one that is accepted by most/all (and logging any discrepancies with coredump-like details). Luke ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60135991&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development