From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from sog-mx-3.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.193] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-1.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1YLXiG-0004Eq-EC for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 11 Feb 2015 13:52:20 +0000 Received-SPF: pass (sog-mx-3.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com: domain of gmail.com designates 74.125.82.180 as permitted sender) client-ip=74.125.82.180; envelope-from=mh.in.england@gmail.com; helo=mail-we0-f180.google.com; Received: from mail-we0-f180.google.com ([74.125.82.180]) by sog-mx-3.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) id 1YLXiE-00061c-D3 for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 11 Feb 2015 13:52:20 +0000 Received: by mail-we0-f180.google.com with SMTP id k11so3522099wes.11 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 2015 05:52:12 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.180.198.101 with SMTP id jb5mr19146740wic.92.1423662732329; Wed, 11 Feb 2015 05:52:12 -0800 (PST) Sender: mh.in.england@gmail.com Received: by 10.194.188.11 with HTTP; Wed, 11 Feb 2015 05:52:12 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 14:52:12 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 9zDyquu1BUPJDiHL-mok7IrQssE Message-ID: From: Mike Hearn To: Natanael Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=047d7b624d1470cd82050ed04f84 X-Spam-Score: -0.5 (/) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. -1.5 SPF_CHECK_PASS SPF reports sender host as permitted sender for sender-domain 0.0 FREEMAIL_FROM Sender email is commonly abused enduser mail provider (mh.in.england[at]gmail.com) -0.0 SPF_PASS SPF: sender matches SPF record 1.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message 0.1 DKIM_SIGNED Message has a DKIM or DK signature, not necessarily valid -0.1 DKIM_VALID Message has at least one valid DKIM or DK signature X-Headers-End: 1YLXiE-00061c-D3 Cc: Bitcoin Dev Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal: Requiring a miner's signature in the block header X-BeenThere: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 13:52:20 -0000 --047d7b624d1470cd82050ed04f84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 If you're interested in working on mining decentralisation, chipping away at getblocktemplate support would be a better path forward. It's possible to have decentralised pooled mining - I know it sounds like a contradiction but it's not. I wrote about some of the things that can be done in this blog post: https://blog.bitcoinfoundation.org/mining-decentralisation-the-low-hanging-fruit/ --047d7b624d1470cd82050ed04f84 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
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