Re: [Bitcoin-development] Decentralizing ming

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@bitpay.com>]

Yes.  That, and several other things.  If you can figure out how to
propagate a block without re-propagating all the transactions everyone
already has, you address the large-blocks-slower-to-relay problem, and
additionally create an incentive for miners to mine blocks consisting
of publicly broadcast transactions (versus a bunch of secret ones
mined with secret agreements).

Democratizing transaction selection takes a bit of power away from the
miners and gives it back to the network at large.  GBT is another
piece of that puzzle.


On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 6:43 AM, Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net> wrote:
> Oops, sorry, I see the subject line changed. This is what I get for working
> down the thread list top to bottom :)
>
> I think the best path forward now is to finish off getblocktemplate support
> in the various tools so it's possible to pool for payout purposes without
> giving up control of block creation modulo the coinbase. Combined with the
> recent sipa performance enhancing goodness, it would hopefully persuade some
> non-trivial chunk of hashpower to go back to running their own node and
> start the process of turning pools merely into payout trackers rather than
> block selectors.
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net> wrote:
>>
>> Jeff, I think the message you're replying to got clipped.
>>
>> Satoshi's only comment AFAIK on the topic of GPU mining was to wish for a
>> gentlemen's agreement to postpone it as long as possible, to help make sure
>> the distribution of coins was as even as possible. Indeed this predated
>> pooled mining.
>>
>



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Jeff Garzik
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