Re: [bitcoin-dev] Selfish Mining Prevention

2018-09-17 Thread Andrew via bitcoin-dev
> I see what you say, however, since the proposal as I have read it says "And > this will keep happening as long as hashrate keeps rising," - what actually > happens in the case hashrate stagnates or falls? In general, a target hashrate can be set by users (can be less or more than the peak

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Selfish Mining Prevention

2018-09-17 Thread Eric Voskuil via bitcoin-dev
> Once hashrate gets large enough, no new miners (additional hashrate) will want to join since their share of the hashrate is too small to make a profit. The share (hash power) of a miner is proportional to capital investment, not the newness of that investment. The efficiency of a new mine

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Selfish Mining Prevention

2018-09-17 Thread Eric Voskuil via bitcoin-dev
> Also with merge mining and proof of space we can be quite efficient in the > future. Proof of memory (space) is just proof of work with extra steps. It does not reduce energy consumption. https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin/wiki/Proof-of-Memory-Facade Merge mining is non-dedicated

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Selfish Mining Prevention

2018-09-17 Thread Zawy via bitcoin-dev
The 51% problem is deep. Any discussion of a solution to it should begin with a link to an article that shows a profound discovery has been made. Selfish mining prevention and pollution should be on bitcoin-discussion, but it appears that list is not active. The problem with Andrew's idea below