note: the "nothing at stake" problem you propose is not broken for
proof-of-burn, because the attacker
a) has no idea which past transactions are burns
b) has no way to use his mining power, even 5%, to maliciously improve
his odds of being selected
On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 9:12 AM befreeandopen
Hello World,
There are other privacy issues in Core (node and wallet) but recently I came
across one which can be used to identify if someone is using Bitcoin Core with
just the bitcoin address and couple of transactions. I think people have
already given up and don't expect privacy in Core wal
> @befreeandopen I guess I misunderstood your selfish minting attack. Let me
> make sure I understand it. You're saying it would go as follows?:
>
> 1. The malicious actor comes across an opportunity to mint the next 3 blocks.
> But they hold off and don't release their blocks just yet.
> 2. They
@befreeandopen I guess I misunderstood your selfish minting attack. Let me
make sure I understand it. You're saying it would go as follows?:
1. The malicious actor comes across an opportunity to mint the next 3
blocks. But they hold off and don't release their blocks just yet.
2. They receive a ne
