It's not exactly what you're looking for but this is very similar to the premise of Bobtail, which was presented at Scaling Bitcoin a few years ago: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.08750
On Fri, Dec 17, 2021, 10:54 Jeremy via bitcoin-dev < [email protected]> wrote: > An interesting concept occurred to me today while chatting with Nic Carter. > > If we set Bitcoin Core up to gossip headers for work shares (e.g., > expected 500 headers per block would have 20kb overhead, assuming we don't > need to send the prev hash) we'd be able to have more accurate finality > estimates and warnings if we see hashrate abandoning our chain tip. This is > observable regardless of if dishonest miners choose not to publish their > work on non tip shares, since you can notice the missing work. > > In the GUI, we could give users an additional warning if they are > accepting a payment during a sudden hashrate decrease that they might wait > longer. > > Has this been discussed before? > > Cheers, > > Jeremy > > -- > @JeremyRubin <https://twitter.com/JeremyRubin> > <https://twitter.com/JeremyRubin> > _______________________________________________ > bitcoin-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev >
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