Quote from: trippy on June 06, 2011, 12:26:33 PM

Quote from: ben-abuya on June 06, 2011, 12:04:27 PM

One option is to bake pooling into bitcoin. A miner can either do conventional mining, but at much lower difficulty as he would today in a pool, or he can fulfill the role of a pool operator and aggregate blocks. This would require some clever tricks to make sure miners and operators dont cheat each other, but the payoff is huge.

I don't believe any such "clever tricks" exist, nor do I believe they even can exist, and unless anybody has any suggestions, we might as well just stop this thread now.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ciKH3M8WYS49ywz08beXtvpCm2wVGdzU7waKwcn_uaU/edit?hl=en_US&authkey=CJTqyOMF is one such clever trick.