An honest miner is a miner that supports the network by building on top of the best valid chain. A malicious miner is one who wants to disrupt the Bitcoin network, not support it, for example by executing a 51% attack which mines empty blocks on top of the best chain.
/Rune > Den 19/09/2015 kl. 19.19 skrev Justus Ranvier > <jus...@openbitcoinprivacyproject.org>: > >> On 19/09/15 10:45, Rune Kjær Svendsen wrote: >> We need to distinguish between two different things here: >> >> 1) A 51% attack, where the majority of mining power is *malicious* (hence >> “attack”) > > What does "malicious" mean? > > In other words, If miner A is mining honestly, and miner B is mining > maliciously, what are some of the possible difference in their behaviour > we would observe? > > > -- > Justus Ranvier > Open Bitcoin Privacy Project > http://www.openbitcoinprivacyproject.org/ > jus...@openbitcoinprivacyproject.org > E7AD 8215 8497 3673 6D9E 61C4 2A5F DA70 EAD9 E623 > <0xEAD9E623.asc> _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
