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Title: Researchers Claim New Bound for 'Honest Nodes' in Bitcoin Network Post by: bluemeanie1 on November 04, 2013, 05:16:54 PM Quote Currently, any pool can employ Selfish-Mine and start a mudslide. Eyal and Sirer suggest a practical fix of the protocol that would prevent pools smaller than 1/4th of the system from employing Selfish-Mine. They warn, however, than pools this large do exist today (for benign reasons), and they should be dismantled for the system to be immune to selfish mining. This result implies a new bound, requiring 3/4 of the miners to be honest. This bound is significantly higher than the wrongly-believed 1/2. The authors believe, though, that “the Bitcoin ecosystem is strong enough to maintain such a large majority of honest miners”. The question is – can the miners operating today adopt the suggested fix and dismantle too-large pools before a selfish mining pool arises? just passing this along, someone sent me this today. Paper is published on Arxiv. http://www.newswise.com/articles/bitcoin-open-to-takeover-researchers-discover-with-new-algorithm Title: Re: Researchers Claim New Bound for 'Honest Nodes' in Bitcoin Network Post by: warut on November 04, 2013, 05:36:59 PM Very interesting indeed! I'd like to hear comments from other experts.
Title: Re: Researchers Claim New Bound for 'Honest Nodes' in Bitcoin Network Post by: leemar on November 04, 2013, 05:41:09 PM There's a discussion on the dev and technical thread.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=324413.0 Title: Re: Researchers Claim New Bound for 'Honest Nodes' in Bitcoin Network Post by: warut on November 04, 2013, 06:14:03 PM Thanks, leemar.
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