Quote from: jonald_fyookball on May 10, 2017, 07:46:43 PM

I never interpreted anything in this thread that he implied that (I actually think he tried to argue exactly what you are arguing -- that the percentages don't change based on the other pools) but I guess he can answer to that point.

See: now you got it directly from him Cheesy

Quote from: franky1 on May 11, 2017, 04:56:25 AM

Quote from: dinofelis on May 10, 2017, 07:34:44 PM

2) the betraying node is not winning anything, because he's not making blocks at any faster pace than if he remained faithful to the other miners and their agreed-upon protocol.

wrong.. he has no competition so although his average times of maybe say 10.026.. he is not fighting off competition

ok

franky1, really, you have a serious, serious misunderstanding of the basics of bitcoin mining.

You are EXACTLY committing the error I pointed out above:

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One may erroneously think that there are, say, 5 miners *in competition* and that it takes them *about exactly* 10 minutes of computing to get a block, but that sometimes, it takes the first one only 9 minutes and 59 seconds, and the second one, 10 minutes and 1 second, and they were all almost within a few seconds "in time".

I think it is because you do not understand the difference between a very peaked distribution around 10 minutes intervals, and an exponential distribution with AVERAGE 10 minutes.