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Re: [ANN] [HVC] Heavycoin - Ultra-secure, Decentralized Block Reward Voting, Fast
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on 11/04/2014, 11:45:38 UTC
Quote from: TheRealSteve on April 11, 2014, 11:22:15 AM
Quote from: reorder on April 11, 2014, 11:14:01 AM
Technically speaking, the miner is required to set the vote (it is a part of hashed block header), so there is no way a pool could override that.
Yeah, I didn't mean to imply that pools override miners' votes, just that they do set a default value in the batch files / scripts they provide, hence the 'dictate' in single quotes Smiley
Though hypothetically speaking, I'd imagine it would be possible to reject submissions that disagree with a pool's 'allowed range' of votes.  Of course that also means less rewards for the pool to begin with, and miners would quickly realize and change to a different pool so that's even worse for the pool.
The point is, a pool cannot accept 'voteless' shares: these just do not exist, the vote is an integral part of a share or a block. Rejecting votes a pool does not agree with makes no sense indeed. Actually, at first my cgminer fork had the default setting for vote so it could be omitted on the commandline, but I decided to enforce setting it to play by the rules (sort of).