Quote from: Simba84 on May 11, 2017, 05:38:25 PM

Quote from: dga on May 11, 2017, 05:01:15 PM

Quote from: Simba84 on May 11, 2017, 02:48:07 PM

Solo miners continue to withholding blocks Roll Eyes

Then they are broadcasted after 5-10 minutes! Not enough power you have to even cheat !!!!

Lips sealed

Can you point to where in the blockchain you saw this?

Normally, a selfish mining attack results in an increased orphan rate, and is pretty visible. It doesn't seem unusual thus far:

https://chainz.cryptoid.info/ric/orphans.dws

But maybe I'm not understanding what you're saying.

Also, nice diff - if this stays through tomorrow's high-diff block it will produce a new record.

If someone holds over 50% of the nodes they can broadcast the blocks when they want without generating orphans! Strange you (programmer) do not know these things.....

Remember the superblock of last week? It was broadcasted on the network with 2 hours and 40 minutes delay !!!! Do you feel normal? Or do we do the kids?

As we are here programmers, what you have to understand you understand!

The diff rises because of the egoists who solo mine and those only miners who withholding blocks!

If others have not noticed this... open your eyes!

Solo miners are ruining the work of pool administrators, that's for sure!

Keep doing so..... good.....

Um, what I don't understand is what you are saying. This may simply be a language barrier. (And one for which I won't criticize - your English is better than I am at any of the other languages I speak, and I appreciate that we're able to communicate here in my native tongue.)

A > 50% miner cannot profitably withhold blocks without creating orphans. That's precisely the *reason* to withhold blocks -- you let other people waste their hashing effort, orphan them, and mine the blocks without increasing the difficulty. (The other reasons to withhold attacks involve trying to double-spend, which isn't relevant in this context, since no exchanges accept 0-confirmation RIC transactions.)

The delay you're seeing is much more likely due to DDoS or network anomalies than intentional withholding. But I was curious to try to investigate it, which is why I *asked you to point to it*, which you have not done.

Yes, the solo miners are harming the income achieved by the pool administrators, but who cares? (I mean, obviously, you do, because it's your income stream, but why should anyone else care?).

A solo miner at 50% is concerning in a more fundamental sense, of course, just as a pool at 50% is concerning, because they can easily orphan others' blocks.

The diff rises because there is a ton of mining going on. Which may or may not have something to do with:

(Image screenshot from coingecko - they don't have a 2Y chart, unfortunately.)