We have been working on a peer to peer mining pool that overcomes the
problems faced by P2Pool and enables building a futures market for
hashrate.
The proposal can be found here:
https://github.com/pool2win/braidpool/raw/main/proposal/proposal.pdf
The key features of the pool are:
1. Lower va
I see Braidpool as an improvement to P2Pool - i.e. make a peer to peer pool
work at scale.
This is in contrast to Stratum v2, which brings some very good and much needed
engineering improvements to centralised pools.
Specifically about transaction selection in Stratum V2, as far as I understand
> A thing I just realized about Braidpool is that the payout server is still a
> single central point-of-failure.
> However, this probably complicates the design too much, and it may be more
> beneficial to get *something* working now.
You have hit the nail on the head here and Chris Belcher's
Hi Filippo,
If a malicious miner, M broadcasts {m1, m2 ... mn} at a regular interval, *and*
also broadcasts {m1*, mn*} where mn* is bitcoin block then M will cheat all
other miners of their reward. You correctly identified this attack. The problem
stems from the fact that I wanted to use the b
