Re: [ANN] SpreadCoin | Decentralize Everything (official thread)

And in general, how goes the fight for true decentralization?

Not too shabby. The potential of Mr Spreads anti-pool innovation has been noted, borrowed, adopted, adapted and is now obliquely traceable via reference #34 to Ziftrcoin (*) in Andrew Miller et als' preprint paper (PDF) Nonoutsourceable Scratch-Off Puzzles to Discourage Bitcoin Mining Coalitions.

So there ya go.

Cheers

Graham

(*) Spreadcoin repos was created well before Ziftrcoin.

Actually there is a Suprnova Pool for Spreadcoin as well as Ziftrcoin

I prefer to call it "Pool Discouragement" rather than "anti-pool".

Yeah, I'm still trying to get my head around how the pool actually operates in this instance. For instance, does this pool operate using the same mechanisms detailed in the whitepaper?

If it did, anybody could steal the pools coins. I think OCminer has found a clever workaround though although I haven't seen the source code yet. There are a few ways to beat SpreadX11 as far as I know but none are widely used yet.