• tuskerOPM
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    1 year ago

    This has not worked. It is time for a solution on the protocol level to handicap giant irresponsible pools in some way.

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      1 year ago

      It has not worked yet. P2ppool is steadily growing still, new miners have no reason to join a pool. Big system administrators will keep flexing on pools every now and then I guess, botnets too. I don’t see us worrying once p2pool gets top 3 or thereabouts.

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      1 year ago

      Okay. Walk me through this. How do you enforce the use of p2pool on the protocol level? How would you even distinguish a pool operation against a solo mining operation?

      Wownero tried to eliminate the pool mining. But they enforced solo mining on the protocol level.

      So, how would one enforce p2pool mining on the protocol level?

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        1 year ago

        Someone would have to get pretty creative. I do not think enforcing p2pool is possible, besides we do not want to kill pool mining all together, but making running a giant pool very inefficient may be the way to go.

        Mining protocol changes to combat pool centralization - https://github.com/monero-project/research-lab/issues/98

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        1 year ago

        Just found out about wownero (memecoin), they better put that effort to improve monero :/

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          It’s not wasted effort, it is basically like a testnet for Monero where bleeding edge and novel tech can be tested without much impact in case of failure.

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        1 year ago

        adding p2pool block hash and something signed by private spend key to the block requirements should accomplish this? whether or not its a good idea is another thing