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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@bitpay.com>
To: Roy Badami <roy@gnomon.org.uk>
Cc: Bitcoin-Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal: soft-fork to make anyone-can-spend outputs unspendable for 100 blocks
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 14:49:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJHLa0PjAU-MWfUNRtK9zysQdLsCnNx3EiUjdbqQcCcco=g1=A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130604183652.GI45035@giles.gnomon.org.uk>

On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Roy Badami <roy@gnomon.org.uk> wrote:
>> Sure they are paying themselves, but given bitcoin network
>> difficulty is uso high, simply obtaining payments-go-myself-as-miner
>> transactions is itself difficult.
>
> Not for pool operators it isn't.  Nor for people buying hashing power
> from a GPUMAX-type service, if such services still exist (or should
> they exist again in future).

Re-read what I wrote.  That's perfectly OK.  It is analogous to a pool
operator receiving merged mined coins, each time they mine a bitcoin
block.

If you achieve the very high difficulty needed to create a valid
bitcoin block, you have achieved a very high bar.

-- 
Jeff Garzik
Senior Software Engineer and open source evangelist
BitPay, Inc.      https://bitpay.com/



  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-04 18:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-01 19:30 [Bitcoin-development] Proposal: soft-fork to make anyone-can-spend outputs unspendable for 100 blocks Peter Todd
     [not found] ` <201306012034.31543.luke@dashjr.org>
2013-06-01 20:58   ` Peter Todd
     [not found] ` <38A06794-B6B4-45F3-99C1-24B08434536D@gmail.com>
2013-06-02  6:13   ` Peter Todd
2013-06-02 17:35     ` Jeff Garzik
2013-06-02 18:41       ` Peter Todd
2013-06-04  0:22     ` Mark Friedenbach
2013-06-02 21:45 ` Adam Back
2013-06-04 14:12   ` Jeff Garzik
2013-06-04 14:55     ` John Dillon
2013-06-04 17:42       ` Jeff Garzik
2013-06-04 18:36         ` Roy Badami
2013-06-04 18:49           ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2013-06-04 20:25             ` Peter Todd
2013-06-03 23:43 ` Melvin Carvalho
2013-06-04  2:26   ` Michael Hendricks
2013-06-06 19:14 Luke-Jr
2013-06-06 19:59 ` Andreas M. Antonopoulos
2013-06-06 20:07   ` Luke-Jr
2013-06-06 20:16     ` Andreas M. Antonopoulos
2013-06-06 21:48       ` Luke-Jr
2013-06-06 22:10         ` Melvin Carvalho
2013-06-06 20:25   ` Melvin Carvalho

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