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Board Altcoin Discussion
Re: [XPM] [ANN] Primecoin Pool Software
by
bcp19
on 13/08/2013, 21:37:36 UTC
The big problem for making pool is shares check....
Example: If you mine 9-er chain and submit 6-er chains as share you'll get about 20 6-er chains in a hour.
Exactly! A miner properly optimized for short chains (to get the best possible reward from pool) would have low performance on 9+ chains. Sort of withholding attack from pool's point of view.
Optimizing a miner to search only short chains is kinda dumb.  Let's say ALL the miners adopt it... suddenly no blocks are found and no one makes anything.  Face it, why are 5-chains no longer accepted?  Flooding the pool with 6 chains will give you a short term increase in XPM followed by either a lockout of 6 chains or a loss of the big dogs finding blocks who get disgusted funding all the small timers who will never find a block stealing all the XPM.  The end result of both options is  a subsequent decrease in XPM.  Greed is always it's own reward.