Luke-Jr [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2013-10-23 📝 Original message:On Wednesday, October 23, ...
📅 Original date posted:2013-10-23
📝 Original message:On Wednesday, October 23, 2013 9:42:14 PM Allen Piscitello wrote:
> That being said, it's a huge chicken and egg problem. No one wants to go
> off the reference client since it could lead to working on a forked chain
> as a miner or having bad data as a client.
Thankfully, miners are incentivised to run one of every widespread node to
ensure their blocks are accepted by the network. Eloipool already supports
cross-referencing block templates between multiple clients and using the one
that is accepted by most/all (and logging any discrepancies with coredump-like
details).
Luke
📝 Original message:On Wednesday, October 23, 2013 9:42:14 PM Allen Piscitello wrote:
> That being said, it's a huge chicken and egg problem. No one wants to go
> off the reference client since it could lead to working on a forked chain
> as a miner or having bad data as a client.
Thankfully, miners are incentivised to run one of every widespread node to
ensure their blocks are accepted by the network. Eloipool already supports
cross-referencing block templates between multiple clients and using the one
that is accepted by most/all (and logging any discrepancies with coredump-like
details).
Luke