Do you need to do full validation? There's an economic cost to mining invalid blocks, and even if that were acceptable there's really no reason to perform such an attack. The result would be similar to a block withholding attack, but unlike block withholding it would be trivially detectable if/when full validation was performed.
To protect yourself and to detect incorrect mining software you could stochastically validate a randomly selected sample of shares, as your hardware requirements allow. On 06/19/2014 01:26 PM, slush wrote: > With GBT, simply hashing the block header is not enough, because pool > cannot rely on anything provided by the client. Its not only about > things like withdrawal attacks, but more about hidden bugs in various > miners. It is extremely hard to do full validation for *every* of > submitted shares. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing & Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
