Let's try to get GBT 2.0 off the ground finally.. :) Here's some wishlist items/ideas: - Extremely low bandwidth use (binary protocol, with compression support) - UDP-based transport protocol? (so message order need not be preserved at the expense of latency) - Ability to instruct miners to insert (username,hash-of-username,hash-of- options-array,hash-of-both,etc) in coinbase at a given position (this enables cheaper proof-of-work auditing of a pool's rewards; it can just save/publish shares meeting higher targets and anyone can verify the shares were found by a given username/hash) - Always encrypted (once by the server), with optional authentication via CA/namecoin/URI - Incrementing "precommit id" so miners can precommit to settings without needing a new/custom coinbase - Multiple clients should share bandwidth on a LAN (similar to slush's stratum proxy) - Convey prevblock as block header so we can follow blockchains securely. - Fee logic: pools can claim as much coinbase distribution as they require (with hint from miner); miners are expected to ensure subsidy + transaction fees tally up to the required total; any fees beyond requires total may be distributed as the miner wishes. Potentially, pools could allow 50% (or similar) participation allowing a miner to use multiple pools at the same time.
Rather than polluting the main development mailing list with what is sure to have quite a bit of discussion, I have asked kinlo (who hosts the poolowners mailing list) to provide a dedicated list for this purpose. Interested parties should please subscribe via http://list.pfoe.be/mailman/listinfo/gbt2 and send replies to g...@list.pfoe.be (once a draft BIP is ready, the main dev mailing list will be once again CC'd). Luke ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available. Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free." http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
