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Title: Secure bitcoin by signing blocks as trusted? Post by: timeofmind on May 30, 2013, 08:59:28 PM This relates to my idea from Alt-Coin (ie. spam board): TrustCoins: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=220513.0 I didn't think the idea belonged here because it is a totally different model than mining and clearly bitcoin could not ever change over to it exclusively, but... I'm thinking it could be partially implemented as a "soft" addition to bitcoin protocol (ie. for informational purposes but not honored) as a secondary option against future attacks. Ie. if bitcoin was to at least build a network of trusted miners and each miner (pool) who adds blocks to the chain was to also add their signature to that block, it could potentially be used to blacklist a future attack and to select the chain of the most blocks with trusted signatures. Title: Re: Secure bitcoin by signing blocks as trusted? Post by: FoBoT on May 31, 2013, 01:50:09 AM it seems both redundant and antithetical
Title: Re: Secure bitcoin by signing blocks as trusted? Post by: timeofmind on May 31, 2013, 04:03:18 AM it seems both redundant and antithetical Ya... well, was thinking just as failover in case of a worst-case senario.... but you are right. Just not for bitcoin. I guess if an entity takes over the blockchain, we are just screwed. |