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From: Tom Harding <tomh@thinlink.com>
To: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Defending against empty or near empty blocks from malicious miner takeover?
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2017 14:42:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f10ed0f1-73ee-a6fb-dddf-7a9234fe5c5b@thinlink.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABaSBayb-FAt0XOX9u+T3-Z2gJQAV-Y7xZS_k6YG74VhPqejQA@mail.gmail.com>

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On 3/26/2017 1:22 PM, Bryan Bishop via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 2:05 PM, Peter R via bitcoin-dev
> <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org
> <mailto:bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>> wrote:
>
>     With a tightening of the rule set, a hash power minority that has
>     not upgraded will not produce a minority branch; instead they will
>     simply have any invalid blocks they produce orphaned, serving as a
>     wake-up call to upgrade.
>
>
> False. With bip9-based soft-fork-based activation of segwit, miner
> blocks will not be orphaned unless they are intentionally
> segwit-invalid (which they currently are not). If you have told miners
> otherwise, let me know.
>

A reasonable miner automatically checks every transaction seen, to see
if it might be valid with his own outputs substituted.


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-03-26 21:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-24 16:03 [bitcoin-dev] Defending against empty or near empty blocks from malicious miner takeover? CANNON
2017-03-24 16:27 ` Emin Gün Sirer
2017-04-14  2:22   ` CANNON
2017-03-24 17:29 ` Nick ODell
2017-03-24 17:37   ` Hampus Sjöberg
2017-03-24 19:00 ` Aymeric Vitte
2017-03-25 16:12   ` CANNON
2017-03-25 20:28     ` Peter R
2017-03-26  2:38       ` Alex Morcos
2017-03-26  9:13         ` Chris Pacia
2017-03-26 11:27           ` Alex Morcos
2017-03-26 19:05         ` Peter R
2017-03-26 20:20           ` Alphonse Pace
2017-03-26 20:22           ` Bryan Bishop
2017-03-26 20:37             ` Trevin Hofmann
2017-03-26 20:44               ` Bryan Bishop
2017-03-26 21:12             ` Eric Voskuil
2017-03-26 21:42             ` Tom Harding [this message]
2017-03-26 22:15           ` Eric Voskuil
2017-03-27 10:25             ` Aymeric Vitte
2017-03-26  3:00       ` [bitcoin-dev] Two altcoins and a 51% attack (was: Defending against empty or near empty blocks from malicious miner takeover?) Eric Voskuil
2017-03-24 19:00 ` [bitcoin-dev] Defending against empty or near empty blocks from malicious miner takeover? Aymeric Vitte

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