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From: "Rune K. Svendsen" <runesvend@gmail.com>
To: Justus Ranvier <justus@openbitcoinprivacyproject.org>
Cc: "bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org"
	<bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Hash of UTXO set as consensus-critical
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2015 22:11:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <F59E7FFD-D4C7-45D3-8224-4C1D62D8AAB6@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55FD990F.8060102@openbitcoinprivacyproject.org>

An honest miner is a miner that supports the network by building on top of the best valid chain. A malicious miner is one who wants to disrupt the Bitcoin network, not support it, for example by executing a 51% attack which mines empty blocks on top of the best chain.


/Rune

> Den 19/09/2015 kl. 19.19 skrev Justus Ranvier <justus@openbitcoinprivacyproject.org>:
> 
>> On 19/09/15 10:45, Rune Kjær Svendsen wrote:
>> We need to distinguish between two different things here:
>> 
>> 1) A 51% attack, where the majority of mining power is *malicious* (hence “attack”)
> 
> What does "malicious" mean?
> 
> In other words, If miner A is mining honestly, and miner B is mining
> maliciously, what are some of the possible difference in their behaviour
> we would observe?
> 
> 
> -- 
> Justus Ranvier
> Open Bitcoin Privacy Project
> http://www.openbitcoinprivacyproject.org/
> justus@openbitcoinprivacyproject.org
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  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-19 20:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-18 19:05 [bitcoin-dev] Hash of UTXO set as consensus-critical Rune Kjær Svendsen
2015-09-18 19:43 ` Patrick Strateman
2015-09-18 20:07   ` Alex Morcos
2015-09-18 20:11     ` Matt Corallo
2015-09-18 20:17   ` Rune Kjær Svendsen
2015-09-18 20:37     ` Jorge Timón
2015-09-18 20:38       ` Jorge Timón
2015-09-18 22:22         ` Vincent Truong
2015-09-19  2:30     ` Justus Ranvier
2015-09-19 15:45       ` Rune Kjær Svendsen
2015-09-19 17:19         ` Justus Ranvier
2015-09-19 20:11           ` Rune K. Svendsen [this message]
2015-09-20  0:48             ` Dave Scotese
2015-09-21 17:15             ` Justus Ranvier

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