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From: Martijn Meijering <martijn.meijering@mevs.nl>
To: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: [bitcoin-dev]  Reasons to add sync flags to Bitcoin
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 22:58:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAODYVYfciFGoVMKtOWs9PNkEJEt768KFZNO6s-qFhzQFchUTXw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

- Flags will be mined selfishly, and not published until the advantage
   gained from withholding is less than the mining reward.  This effect may
   kill the decentralization features, since big miners will be the only ones
   that can selfish-mine flags.  Indeed, collusion would be encouraged... just
   ship the flag to the miners you do business with, and no one else.   At the
   expense of loss of flag revenue, your in-group would gain a massive
   advantage in main-chain mining.

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Is there a reason miners would be more likely to engage in selfish
mining of sync flags than they are now with ordinary blocks?


             reply	other threads:[~2016-07-26 20:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-26 20:58 Martijn Meijering [this message]
2016-07-26 21:45 ` [bitcoin-dev] Reasons to add sync flags to Bitcoin Tier Nolan
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2016-07-26 12:47 Moral Agent
2016-07-26 13:51 ` Tom
2016-07-26 17:27   ` Erik Aronesty
2016-07-26 22:03 ` Nick ODell
2016-07-27 14:42   ` Moral Agent
2016-07-28 16:41 ` Moral Agent

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