On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 08:21:40PM -0400, Russell O'Connor via bitcoin-dev wrote: > Oops, you are right. We need the bribe to be the output of the coinbase, > but due to the maturity rule, it isn't really a bribe. > > Too bad coinbases cannot take other coinbase outputs as inputs to bypass > the maturity rule. > > I guess that means the bribe has to be by leaving transactions in the > mempool.
...and that's hardly a bribe. That's just being unable to mine competitively because your operation is too small. Anyway, I think all this is a good example of how mining being dependent on fee-income makes mining much more complex, and harder to do as a small player. Not good. > Also your point about centralization pressure is well taken. Thanks -- https://petertodd.org 'peter'[:-1]@petertodd.org
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