Re: [bitcoin-dev] Braidpool: Proposal for a decentralised mining pool

2021-09-11 Thread Filippo Merli via bitcoin-dev
>From my understanding of the posted proposal, a share to get rewarded must "prove" to be created before the rewarded share. (between L and R) If GOOD3 refers to BAD2 the only thing that I can prove is that BAD2 has been mined before GOOD2. So if BAD3 is a valid block (I call it R like in the pdf

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Braidpool: Proposal for a decentralised mining pool

2021-09-10 Thread Filippo Merli via bitcoin-dev
Hi! >From the proposal it is not clear why a miner must reference other miners' shares in his shares. What I mean is that there is a huge incentive for a rogue miner to not reference any share from other miner so he won't share the reward with anyone, but it will be paid for the share that he crea