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Wouldn't pool participants that use this extension to steal rewards be exposed to the pool simply due to their work being consistently challenged and thus lost?
by Peaker 12y ago
Wouldn't pool participants that use this extension to steal rewards be exposed to the pool simply due to their work being consistently challenged and thus lost?
i.e: The pool would notice that certain participants contributions are conflicting with other discoveries, and ban such participants?
- Tuna-Fish 12y ago> The pool would notice that certain participants contributions are conflicting with other discoveries, and ban such participants? How? Or, you ban me, I sign up again under a different alias.
- gus_massa 12y agoThe pool can use a 2% fee for old accounts and a 20% fee for new accounts (for example, with less than 1 month or less than 10^x hashes calculated.)
- eric_bullington 12y agoAnd so few new miners would sign up. Which would be good.
- marcosdumay 12y agoBut, you see, the attacker isn't mining anything of value under the pool, thus the pool has nothing to apply the fee over.
- Tuna-Fish 12y agoFees cost almost nothing to hostile miners. With a 20% fee, they get 100% of their hashrate through the theft, and 80% from the pool. So long as you pay anything at all to new miners doing this attack is beneficial.