Re: [Bitcoin-development] Possible Solution To SM Attack

[Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Drak <drak@zikula.org> wrote:
> If I understand the issue properly, this seems like a pretty elegant
> solution: if two blocks are broadcast within a certain period of eachother,
> chose the lower target. That's a provable fair way of randomly choosing the
> winning block and would seem like a pretty simply patch.

uh. and so when my solution is, by chance, unusually low... I am
incentivized to hurry up and release my block because?

I've simulated non-first-block-heard strategies in the past (in the
two nearly tied miner with network latency model) and they result in
significant increase in large (e.g. >>6 block) reorgs). It's easy to
make convergence worse or to create additional perverse incentives.