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Would the following theoretically work? 1. Monitor all transactions in the public pool for their fees. 2. As soon as their is a public transaction in the pool

• schoen 6y ago
  Yes, but you have to worry about several things, at least: * what's your latency for noticing and spinning up those resources (especially in chains where the average time between blocks is very short)? * can you cost-effectively confidently outcompete ASIC miners with rented GPUs, even given a reward that's much larger than normal? (probably, given this very extreme anomaly, but you have to do the calculation) * can you actually rent enough GPUs in practice to outcompete the ASIC miners? * will it be worth it to ASIC miners who know or speculate that you're doing this to speculatively mine for a while on a shorter chain in which they receive the reward instead of you, in the hope that they can make it longer than yours? Edit: Finally, do some of the ASIC miners have offline capacity (e.g. old equipment, or equipment located in places where electricity got more expensive) that is physically present in a datacenter but just powered off that they can also spin up quickly in response to these conditions?