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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Pools With a Significant Hashrate: A Realistic Double Spend Attack Taking 2 Hr
by
Raulo
on 07/07/2011, 07:59:01 UTC
When you are in a pool, you only get pre-hashed data. You can't see anything you are working on.

OK, I have not used pools for a long time but if they return a valid getwork (and they should), then getwork returns the block header. The hash of the previous block is there.
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Block_hashing_algorithm

Pools only need to manipulate the target hash so the miners submit all the hashes of difficult 1 and above
The attacker may try to spoof the data block, but then the hash of the data would differ from the midstate.