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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Proof of Activity Proposal
by
iddo
on 01/12/2012, 13:19:05 UTC
Note: Another option is to get rid of PoW entirely and use txns as a source of a random number generator. I discuss this here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=127954.msg1369600#msg1369600 Of course you could still use PoW to hand out free coins.

Looking at your post there:

5) With any given iteration there is a chance of moving to block t+1 and starting the process over again.

If I understand correctly, any txn (above threshold of 210 coins) modifies the hash and thereby derives new lucky stakeholders who may sign the block, who would thereby move the blockchain to the next block t+1. If that's the case, how is it different than PoW mining? Any "miner" with large computational power could just tweak some txn (that he sends to himself) until the block gets solved. Each tweak attempt derives new pseudorandom lucky stakeholders, so it's equivalent to PoW hash attempts (actually PoW hash attempts at an extremely low difficulty, because creating ECDSA signature for the txn can be done quickly, so the competing "miners" will cause huge network sync problems).