Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal: Requiring a miner's signature in the block header

2015-02-12 Thread Ittay
... -- Message: 3 Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 10:25:27 +0100 From: Natanael natanae...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal: Requiring a miner's signature in the block header To: Hector Chu hector...@gmail.com Cc: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID

[Bitcoin-development] Proposal: Requiring a miner's signature in the block header

2015-02-11 Thread Hector Chu
A proposal for stemming the tide of mining centralisation -- Requiring a miner's signature in the block header (the whole of which is hashed), and paying out coinbase to the miner's public key. Please comment on whether this idea is feasible, has been thought of before, etc., etc. Thank you.

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal: Requiring a miner's signature in the block header

2015-02-11 Thread Natanael
Den 11 feb 2015 09:55 skrev Hector Chu hector...@gmail.com: A proposal for stemming the tide of mining centralisation -- Requiring a miner's signature in the block header (the whole of which is hashed), and paying out coinbase to the miner's public key. Please comment on whether this idea is

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal: Requiring a miner's signature in the block header

2015-02-11 Thread Mike Hearn
If you're interested in working on mining decentralisation, chipping away at getblocktemplate support would be a better path forward. It's possible to have decentralised pooled mining - I know it sounds like a contradiction but it's not. I wrote about some of the things that can be done in this