Hi Nathan, That's a fair question, but note that we've already had a bunch of "green mining" related posts a few months ago, so I suspect you'll be able to find many criticisms to this idea in the following thread:
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2021-May/018937.html It also looks like you'll be able to find some related answers on Bitcoin Stack Exchange: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/106308/decreasing-energy-consumption-of-bitcoins-pow-with-paired-mining-rounds And generally speaking these types of discussions don't end up being very fruitful for bitcoin-dev, because these are the types of changes that are unlikely to ever be seriously considered for Bitcoin. Cheers, Ruben On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 4:09 PM Nathan T Alexander via bitcoin-dev < bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > For purposes of conserving energy, couldn't each mining rig have some > non-gameable attribute which would be used to calculate if a block would > be accepted by that rig? > > Don't the mining rigs have to be able to identify themselves to the > network somehow, in order to claim their block reward? Could their > bitcoin network ID be used as a non-gameable attribute? > > Essentially a green light / red light system. In order for a block to be > accepted by the network, it must have all attributes of a successful > block today, and it must also have come from a rig that had a green light. > > Perhaps hash some data from the last successful block, along with the > miners non-gameable attribute, and if it's below a certain number set by > algorithm, the miner gets a green light to race to produce a valid block. > > Nathan Alexander > > Arlington, TX > > _______________________________________________ > bitcoin-dev mailing list > bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev >
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