Miner sending found block to wallet instead of pool

[mochicoin]

I believe someone has already thought of this, as at one point I believe I saw a script in bfg miner that allowed this. The idea is that a miner collects money for shares from a pool but once a block is found, it collects the 25 (or whatever it may be as of reading this) BTC to a wallet instead of trading it for a share. My question is, if this has been implemented, why are pools finding blocks. Or is it that the code was removed and most have not thought of doing so. Or am I missing something, maybe this is not possible.

[jerelimZ]

maybe this is not possible.

this

because you just hashing transaction string which has the 25 BTC reward address included

[harryz]

maybe this is not possible.

this

because you just hashing transaction string which has the 25 BTC reward address included

spot on.

[jerelimZ]

all you can is not send result when you find solution to hurt pool - probably pay per share only. Maybe it is worth the risk of ban and loosing accumulated BTC only if you have pool service yourselves to hurt competetion

[mochicoin]

I have done some more reading and it looks like jerelimZ is right. A person could withhold a solution but that solution would not equal a block.

[JoelKatz]

I believe someone has already thought of this, as at one point I believe I saw a script in bfg miner that allowed this. The idea is that a miner collects money for shares from a pool but once a block is found, it collects the 25 (or whatever it may be as of reading this) BTC to a wallet instead of trading it for a share. My question is, if this has been implemented, why are pools finding blocks. Or is it that the code was removed and most have not thought of doing so. Or am I missing something, maybe this is not possible.

A pool won't give you shares for mining for yourself. You don't know in advance whether you're going to find a block, a share, or nothing at all.

[bitshy]

Cryptography to the rescue! It's virtually impossible to cheat like this, because the receiving address is included in the hash, and hashes are (in theory) collision-resistant.

[hax0red]

I can't think of many pools that deserve this with one exception, notroll.in. Still holding 1.6 of my LTC but its a waste of my resources and as such I doubt anyone else will bother either. Now on a paying PPS site you could do it to be a d!ck I guess....makes no sense for the average miner, though.

[mochicoin]

Withholding shares is a possible attack but regarding efficiency it seems about as useful as filling a blockchain with tiny transactions. Both problems are easy to solve and attackers would face increasing costs as the problem becomes more noticeable.