Quote from: dance191 on May 16, 2016, 06:34:18 AM

Quote from: Efficiency V on May 15, 2016, 07:38:48 PM

Quote from: usukan on May 15, 2016, 07:09:12 AM

Block solvers do not get an extra reward.

Kind of off topic, but I think it would be interesting if a pool did provide a small reward to the actual person that find the block. Nothing big, just something to make it interesting and even more of an intensive to have a high overall hash rate to be the finder. Possibly a slightly larger portion of the 25 btc than they would have received.. or half the transaction fee amount gained. The pool would need to of course be transparent as to who the user name or some ID of the finder and the extra reward they received. Surprised no pool as implemented something like this yet.

I think this is a great idea, if nothing else it is really the only way to effectively stop (or severely discourage) a block withholding attack.

Say the person who finds the block gets 50% of the block, everyone else splits the other 50%. Well, if you perform a block withholding attack, you would hurt the pool, but you would hurt yourself as well as you would get rewarded for 50% of your shares and no reward for blocks (as you withhold them). This hurts the pool, but hurts the withholder a great deal as well. Under the current system, any block withholder gets 100% for their shares (more or less, depending on luck) and has no contribution to the pool. Perfect for a block withholder to come in and mess things up.

I'm not saying change the whole pool, but maybe a new pool with a 50/50 option would be nice. A sort of half pooled mining/half solo mining. It might be the best of all worlds - the steady income from the pooled mining with the security of solo mining (people would be crazy to block withhold and solo mine).

Personally, I think this is the best way to deal with the biggest threat to the pool. Anything that makes the pool more secure and helps to guarantee luck is a good thing in my book.

That's Just dumb, if any block withholding is done, its just done to be just detrimental to the pool, someone is shooting themseleves in the foot but causing a larger entity(this pool) to bleed out. IE.. lose hashing power and confidence... Your idea would negate most gains of the smaller miners here that have a low chance of hitting a block and picked this place because of maximum return, if you want that make your own pool... i just dont see how thats a good idea
i'm happy with the way it is. when this place is hittin blocks its awesome, no other pool compare