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Board Pools
Re: Plea for smaller hash resolution protocol, with N seconds time window
by
kano
on 23/06/2012, 02:04:24 UTC
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Timestamps aren't accurate either.

I've thought about it, jetmine, and I simply cannot see any way that a pool can convince a majority of nodes to accept the block it has produced over someone else's. That would require network coercion on a massive scale.
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Actually, I thought of what might be a reasonably simple way to coerce the network a week or so ago ...
Run lots of bitcoind's ...
If you look at blockchain.info it is connected to what? around 250 nodes - would it be that hard to run 250 optimised on their actual block databases and setup appropriately, and point them at a big pool?
However, Luke-jr ignored it when I suggested it ...