Am I the only one to think putting pools at a disadvantage is actually desirable?<br>Back when pools started to appear we all had huge reservations about putting so much control into the hands of a few pool operators, but nowadays it seems that having pool operators control a vast majority of the computational power is desired.<br>

I do like pools (I use them myself), but we should put the security of the protocol in first place and then only think about individual players.<br>Always remember that the problems pool operators encounter are likely also the ones of a potential attacker that tries to accumulate 50%+ of the network power :-)<br>

<br>Regards,<br>Chris<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Luke-Jr <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:luke@dashjr.org">luke@dashjr.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">

<div class="im">On Wednesday, September 14, 2011 10:45:36 AM Gavin Andresen wrote:<br>
&gt; The block timestamp rules currently give HOURS of wiggle-room for<br>
&gt; timestamps. We can&#39;t change those rules without risking a chain split.<br>
<br>
</div>And those hours of wiggle-room are not enough to cause a problem.<br>
The problem only comes in (AFAIK) when the existing rules are *not* enforced.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
&gt; Assuming a majority of pools/miners adopt the &quot;discourage blocks with<br>
&gt; stale timestamps&quot; rule, that should squash any incentive for cartels<br>
&gt; to try to start playing with difficulty-- you would have to have 50+%<br>
&gt; power to start, or you risk producing mostly orphan blocks.<br>
<br>
</div>As this is against pools/miners&#39; interests, and doesn&#39;t seem to solve any real<br>
problems, I&#39;m going to discourage its adoption if it ever gets done.<br>
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