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From: Michael Fuhrmann <fuhmic@web.de>
To: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: [bitcoin-dev] Proposal: Force to do nothing for first 9 minutes to save 90% of mining energy
Date: Fri, 14 May 2021 23:41:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d35dee03-2d19-e80a-c577-2151938f9203@web.de> (raw)

Hello,

Bitcoin should create blocks every 10 minutes in average. So why do
miners need to mine the 9 minutes after the last block was found? It's
not necessary.

Problem: How to prevent "pre-mining" in the 9 minutes time window?

Possible ideas for discussion:

- (maybe most difficult) global network timer sending a salted hash time
code after 9 minutes. this enables validation by nodes.

- (easy attempt) mining jobs before 9 minutes have a 10 (or 100 or just
high enough) times higher difficulty. so everyone can mine any time but
before to 9 minutes are up there will be a too high downside. It is more
efficient to wait then paying high bills. The bitcoin will get a "puls".


I dont think I see all problems behind these ideas but if there is a
working solution to do so then the energy fud will find it's end. Saving
energy without loosing rosbustness.



:)


             reply	other threads:[~2021-05-14 21:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-14 21:41 Michael Fuhrmann [this message]
2021-05-15 22:14 ` [bitcoin-dev] Proposal: Force to do nothing for first 9 minutes to save 90% of mining energy René Pickhardt
2021-05-15 22:19 ` Pavol Rusnak
2021-05-16 15:30 ` Zac Greenwood
2021-05-16 18:10 ` Karl
2021-05-16 20:31   ` Anton Ragin
2021-05-16 22:06     ` Eric Voskuil
2021-05-16 23:29       ` Karl
2021-05-16 21:15   ` Zac Greenwood
2021-05-16 22:05     ` Karl
2021-05-17  9:34       ` Zac Greenwood
2021-05-17  2:58 ` Luke Dashjr
2021-05-17 12:39   ` Anton Ragin
2021-05-18  7:46     ` ZmnSCPxj
2021-05-17 19:17   ` Michael Fuhrmann
2021-05-18  8:04     ` ZmnSCPxj
2021-05-17  5:17 ` yanmaani
2021-05-17 13:14 befreeandopen
2021-05-17 13:53 ` Anton Ragin
2021-05-17 17:28   ` Keagan McClelland
2021-05-17 23:02     ` Anton Ragin

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