I've created a simulation framework called simbit to simulate the selfish
mining attack, though it is general enough to simulate any p2p network. I
even put together a rough simulation of MinCen. The goal is to be fun/easy
to rapidly prototype protocols and strategies, and visualize them. It's
On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Andreas M. Antonopoulos
andr...@rooteleven.com wrote:
Nicholas Weaver is reporting that pools have already started delaying
blocks, something that hints at Selfish Mining, since Nov. 3rd.
https://medium.com/something-like-falling/d321a2ef9317
He dismisses
On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 10:59:28PM -0600, Kyle Jerviss wrote:
Each block that you solve has a reward. In practice, some blocks
will be orphaned, so the expected reward is slightly less than the
nominal reward. Each second that you delay publishing a block, the
expected reward drops somewhat.
Once the ASIC race calms down because everyone has one, has more or less
optimal power supplies, process improvements aren't easily reachable
anymore etc then I'd expect people to dissipate from the large pools
because eliminating their fees will become the next lowest hanging fruit to
squeeze out
The problem with academics is that they don't have to worry about the real
world. They get paid to publish things, not to be helpful to society.
On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 11:33 PM, kjj bitcoin-de...@jerviss.org wrote:
One of the things that really gets me going is when someone devises a
model,
I might try building this sometime soon. I think it may also serve an
educational purpose when trying to understand the whole network's behaviour.
What level of accuracy are we looking for though? Obviously we need to
fully emulate the steps of the network protocol, and we need to be able to
bounty++
On 06-11-13 06:33, kjj wrote:
One of the things that really gets me going is when someone devises a
model, tests it against itself, and then pretends that they've learned
something about the real world.
Naturally, the Selfish Mining paper is exactly this sort of nonsense.
On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 01:06:47PM -0500, Christophe Biocca wrote:
I might try building this sometime soon. I think it may also serve an
educational purpose when trying to understand the whole network's behaviour.
What level of accuracy are we looking for though? Obviously we need to
fully
You are ignoring the gambler's ruin. We do not operate on an infinite
timeline. If you find a big pool willing to try this, please give me
enough advance warning to get my popcorn ready.
Peter Todd wrote:
On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 01:06:47PM -0500, Christophe Biocca wrote:
I might try
On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 10:15:40PM -0600, Kyle Jerviss wrote:
You are ignoring the gambler's ruin. We do not operate on an
infinite timeline. If you find a big pool willing to try this,
please give me enough advance warning to get my popcorn ready.
Gamblers ruin has nothing to do with it.
At
What I want is configurable 1/10/100 millisecond ticks, and accurate
flow of information.
It doesn't seem necessary to really emulate the whole protocol, nor to
be overly concerned with the content of messages, nor to simulate every
little housekeeping step or network message.
I'm not
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