Quote from: franky1 on June 17, 2014, 02:49:39 AM

Quote from: samurai1200 on June 17, 2014, 02:21:16 AM

Having to trust GHash is completely beyond the point. What if they were perfectly altruistic, but someone held a gun to the operators' heads IRL while performing an attack? Removing the need for trust has the added benefit of removing responsibility to protect against wrong-doers.

good point its the same as the scenario of a pool that had 30% and another pool having 21%. some well organised guy can easily arrange to raid/bribe the 2 pools and get them to implement the same code. meaning a total of 51% of miners would be relaying new confirmed blocks that have nasty rules added.

the only solution would be a 10% cap that is put into the main protocol, that way pool owners have no choice, but to only get a 10% customer base/chance of solving a block and would require 6 pools to be collaborating/co-erst into doing nasty mining rule changes

How would you enforce such a cap? Couldn't a pool operator simply broadcast found blocks to different nodes and/or have the found coins sent to different BTC addresses when blocks are found?