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

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.

I think I've read this somewhere in P2pool already implement this except it only give 0.5% more to the block finder NOT 50%. I might be wrong.