quote: > https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Getblocktemplate is supposed to solve most > of the pooling-centralization problems. Unfortunately, it is opt-in, > and GHash.io doesn't support it. > > Also most miners don't care and don't do the work to set it up. To do > transaction inclusion themselves, they'd need to run a full node, > which is a bit more work and resources than just pointing hashpower at > a stratum server. > > If you figure out a way to make GBT widely used (>50% hashpower), kudos to > you. >
Well, as soon as miners learn about the merits of controlling the blocks' contents, this issue may get solved by the market pressure of miners expecting this kind of service from their pool. I mean, the dev community constantly has some level of disagreement about the best policies for what to include in blocks. But seen from the perspective of some Bitcoin business or another, certain policies might be more preferable. So if miners start to understand that they could take a stake for their favourite Bitcoin businesses by choosing a mining pool which employs a preferable transaction inclusion policy, the question would not anymore be "which pool gives me the most Bitcoins or the lowest variance, regardless of the technical background", but "which pools does the best for my Bitcoin economy needs". And this may be a very economically driven decision by itself, considering that the exchange rates for Bitcoins depend on Bitcoin businesses doing well. If we get to this point with respect to user (miner) education, then it is probably only a matter of time until people start to find it cumbersome to mine on a black-box pool and having to manually verify that they still have an agreeable transaction inclusion policy, when they can just mine on a GBT pool and configure things in their mining software. > On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 4:57 AM, Raúl Martínez <r...@i-rme.es> wrote: [...] > > We all know the recent news, Ghash pool controlling 51% of the hashrate. > > While some consider it a threat others think that is not harmful. > > > > The thing is that we have to do something to stop this from happening again. > > Bear with me, but this piece of rhetorics struck me. Why even mention those who think it's not harmful, when your next sentence states that their opinion should be ignored completely? Best regards, Isidor > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing & Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
