and if those pools in turn sue eth for not [dis]closing the loophole.
A slight edit.
It remains to be seen if this was a feature or a bug but I don't see any possible litigation potential, just bad media attention.
From my understanding, if everyone exploited this the result would the highest diff solution within the timing window wins the block's
transactions, other solutions become uncle blocks. The timing windows seems to start when the first block solution is submitted and
it lasts for about 13 seconds. Any more difficult solutions during this window can be backdated and replace the previous solution.
I briefly briefly scanned the paper and it seems they have a miner implementation for Gominer. It seems you don't need the pool.
Now the race by all the miners to release it first.