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Title: Merged Mining Post by: Kontakt on December 13, 2012, 08:29:03 PM What is the connection between the Namecoin and Bitcoin blocks?
I understand that the midstate for the Nmc is used as the coinbase for the Btc, but why is it that when someone mines a Btc block, they generally get a Nmc block within 10 minutes? There's got to be some connotation I don't comprehend. Can someone explain? Title: Re: Merged Mining Post by: crazyates on December 13, 2012, 08:37:16 PM why is it that when someone mines a Btc block, they generally get a Nmc block within 10 minutes? There's got to be some connotation I don't comprehend. Can someone explain? IIRC, this question has come up before, and its usually just coincidence. Title: Re: Merged Mining Post by: Kontakt on December 13, 2012, 08:40:30 PM https://bitminter.com/blocks?commodity=all
It's far, far too frequent to be coincidence. I went back 15 pages, and every Btc block was immediately followed by a Nmc block by the same miner. Title: Re: Merged Mining Post by: mdude77 on December 14, 2012, 01:09:50 AM https://bitminter.com/blocks?commodity=all It's far, far too frequent to be coincidence. I went back 15 pages, and every Btc block was immediately followed by a Nmc block by the same miner. Namecoin is based on bitcoin. When you find a bitcoin, if you are doing merged mining, you *will* find a namecoin block. The 10 minutes must be how long it takes for it to show up. M Title: Re: Merged Mining Post by: maqifrnswa on December 14, 2012, 10:54:13 PM Namecoin is based on bitcoin. When you find a bitcoin, if you are doing merged mining, you *will* find a namecoin block. The 10 minutes must be how long it takes for it to show up. This When merge mining, every bitcoin block will find a namecoin block. But not every valid namecoin block will be a bitcoin block (when merge mining and as long as bitcoin difficulty > namecoin diff) Title: Re: Merged Mining Post by: Mad7Scientist on December 16, 2012, 02:46:29 PM Well if the namecoin and bitcoin difficulty was the same, it would be like 100% chance of finding a block from the other network after finding a block on the first network, unless my understanding is incorrect.
Title: Re: Merged Mining Post by: mdude77 on December 16, 2012, 02:51:00 PM Well if the namecoin and bitcoin difficulty was the same, it would be like 100% chance of finding a block from the other network after finding a block on the first network, unless my understanding is incorrect. Close. It won't be after, it will be during. When you find a bitcoin block, it'll be a namecoin block. At same difficulty, the opposite will apply as well. M |