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Board Mining support
Re: What's stoping people from cheating the mining pools?
by
compro01
on 27/06/2011, 20:11:35 UTC
wouldn't work.

the zeroth transaction of a block is the 50 BTC subsidy paid to an address you control.  in the hash work the pool is handing out, that address is controlled by the pool operator, not you.

and you can't just substitute in your address, as that would result in a completely different hash, which is unlikely to meet the target requirement.