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Earth would presumably still have the majority of the miners, so once they'd found a block they'd have a consensus. They'd ignore a block received from Mars tha
by incompatible 9y ago
Earth would presumably still have the majority of the miners, so once they'd found a block they'd have a consensus. They'd ignore a block received from Mars that didn't build on that block. Mars wouldn't be able to do the same to Earth.
- icebraining 9y agoRight, the majority of time, that's what would happen. But sometimes, Earth would mine a block, send it to Mars and immediately start working on the next one, and yet Mars would win it simply because they got lucky enough to find the solution first, despite having a 20m handicap. And then Earth would have to get lucky (which would be easier, since they have more miners, but that's OK). My idea is just that if you increase the target time quite a bit, Mars would get lucky more often. In fact, this already happens: if an European miner wins a block, then why don't other European miners always win the subsequent blocks, since their latency to the winner is lower than American or Chinese miners? It's because the few miliseconds extra are not relevant when a block takes 10m on average to find. My idea is just to increase the target time so that the 20mins latency are also not relevant.
- jacobush 9y agoIf we are going to get this paper clip optimizer really started, Earth is not going to cut it. There is much more mining energy to be tapped closer to the Sun.