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Board Announcements (Altcoins)
Re: [CGA] Cryptographic Anomaly - The Elusive Coin
by
phzi
on 24/02/2014, 07:58:14 UTC
Aww... I was so excited that I had an idea, I forgot to read everyone else's suggestions. Also, I'm not good at reading C++ and I don't know enough about the existing CGA code to know exactly what the hell you're talking about, so can you tell me if your code is determining the reward before or after the block is hashed? Sorry if that's a stupid question, but that's the only possible problem I can see right now-- if the reward outcome of block 2 is based on the hash of block 1, it's just as easy to predict whether block 2 will pay out as it was before.
Because of how bitcoin (and all altcoins based on it so far) are designed, you MUST know the block reward BEFORE the block is hashed.  Every variable reward coin so far is predictable (you know the reward before the block is found).