[bitcoin-dev] Proposal: Force to do nothing for first 9 minutes to save 90% of mining energy

2021-05-15 Thread Michael Fuhrmann via bitcoin-dev
Hello, Bitcoin should create blocks every 10 minutes in average. So why do miners need to mine the 9 minutes after the last block was found? It's not necessary. Problem: How to prevent "pre-mining" in the 9 minutes time window? Possible ideas for discussion: - (maybe most difficult) global

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Proposal: Force to do nothing for first 9 minutes to save 90% of mining energy

2021-05-17 Thread Michael Fuhrmann via bitcoin-dev
Am 17.05.2021 um 04:58 schrieb Luke Dashjr: It increases security, and is unavoidable anyway. You can't. There must be a way. dRNG + universal clock + cryptographical magic?! I'll think about more. Because if there is a safe way of knowing when a block was mined then this can work and no