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, wh
On 20.12.2015 18:00, Emin Gün Sirer via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> Instead, we will have the bigger
> pools become more suspicious of signing up new hash power, which is a
> good thing.
Block withholding attacks do not differentiate between small and large
pools. When Eligius and BTCGuild got hit with t
3) A few more people begin using bitcoin. Bitcoin buckles and dies.
- Something happens a few months from now causing an influx of new users
and more transactions.
- Blocks are constantly full.
- A backlog of transactions keeps growing indefinitely.
- At first people say "bitcoin is slow". After a
