Possible Problems With Bitcoin Mining Cartel

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  1. Kandiru

    Kandiru Member

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    http://qntra.net/2016/03/a-miner-problem/

    Has someone who knows more about Bitcoin know what's going on here? Is this actually proof of there being a secret-chain held by some miners with 51% of the hashrate? Or could it just be down to a 0 fee transaction taking a long time to go through?
     
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  2. LastNinja

    LastNinja Full Member

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    Is this related to this?
     
  3. ceejep

    ceejep Sr. Member
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    This is a Bitcoin related problem. Decred doesn't have this issue except in the case that 51% of the ticket stakeholders are working with 51% of the PoW miners to produce secret chains. A PoW miner without stake tickets can not produce a secret chain because their chain will have no votes.
     
  4. Kandiru

    Kandiru Member

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    Even with 51% of the PoW and PoS working together, you would still struggle to make a significant secret chain, since you'd need 3/5 votes for several blocks in a row. You might get 1 or 2 blocks, but the odds of a large extension you can keep in reserve become vanishingly small very quickly!
     
  5. drunkenmugsy

    drunkenmugsy Sr. Member
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    Good point. I too was thinking it would take 51% of PoW and 51% of stake tickets but the random nature of stake selection does make this highly unlikely. I am even more confident of decreds future as far as this type of issue is concerned.
     
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  6. LastNinja

    LastNinja Full Member

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    What about this? If Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin are "very affected", Decred could profit :D
     
  7. RandaFlores

    RandaFlores New Member

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    #7 RandaFlores, Jul 9, 2020
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    I want to know more about it. Surely, nowadays there are a lot of problems online and offline with the profit receiving. But this seems to increase it and rather effectively.
     

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