Last I heard it was believed the miner had made their own mining client and that the block withholding was a bug, not an intended feature.
On 26.12.2015 09:12, Multipool Admin via bitcoin-dev wrote: > Any attempt to 'fix' this problem, would most likely require changes to > all mining software, why not just make mining more decentralized in general? > > For example, allow anyone to submit proofs of work to Bitcoind that are > some fraction of the network difficulty and receive payment for them if > they're valid. This would also encourage the proliferation of full > nodes since anyone could solo mine again. Then, the next coinbase > transaction could be split among, say, the top 100 proofs of work. > > Eligius already does their miner payouts like this. > > If you want to fix an issue with mining, fix the selfish mining issue > first as it's a much larger and more dangerous potential issue. > > I don't believe it was ever clearly established whether Eligius suffered > a block withholding attack or was just the victim of a miner with (what > was, at the time) a large amount of faulty hardware, however, from the > Bitcointalk threads at the time I believe it was assumed to be the latter. > > --Adam > > > On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 8:44 PM, Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev > <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org > <mailto:bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>> wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 07:43:59PM -0800, Chris Priest via > bitcoin-dev wrote: > > Then shouldn't this be something the pool deals with, not the bitcoin > protocol? > > There is no known way for pools - especially ones that allow anonymous > hashers - to effectively prevent block withholding attacks without > changing the Bitcoin protocol. > > -- > 'peter'[:-1]@petertodd.org <http://petertodd.org> > 00000000000000000188b6321da7feae60d74c7b0becbdab3b1a0bd57f10947d > > _______________________________________________ > bitcoin-dev mailing list > bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org > <mailto:bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev > > > > > _______________________________________________ > bitcoin-dev mailing list > bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev > _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
