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Mon Sep 08 21:36:18 UTC 2014 <X-Rob> And no-one has actually written anything useful for it.
Mon Sep 08 21:35:53 UTC 2014 <X-Rob> However: It's only supported by eligius, as every other pool hates it.
Mon Sep 08 21:35:36 UTC 2014 <X-Rob> that your miner can use to ask for the list of transactions you're mining against, and check them against the merkle hash
Mon Sep 08 21:35:14 UTC 2014 <X-Rob> There is a stratum command 'gettransactions'
Mon Sep 08 21:34:12 UTC 2014 <X-Rob> Can they? Possibly. Will they? Amazingly unlikely.
Mon Sep 08 21:32:00 UTC 2014 <X-Rob> jurov: That's... quite likely.
Mon Sep 08 21:31:52 UTC 2014 <BingoBoingo> X-Rob: Right, but if betting we are talking about a set of any particular blocks.
Mon Sep 08 21:29:34 UTC 2014 <X-Rob> And lying about who found it.
Mon Sep 08 21:29:09 UTC 2014 <X-Rob> BingoBoingo: I'm talking more about the technical issues of claiming a block
Mon Sep 08 21:28:19 UTC 2014 <BingoBoingo> X-Rob: Right, but you have to realize how much a casino can came at 1 or 2 percent house edge over time.
Mon Sep 08 21:27:52 UTC 2014 <X-Rob> So you'd need to ACTUALLY have the pool find a block, or, as I said earlier, have pool C find the block for pool B, but that's economically foolish.
Mon Sep 08 21:27:18 UTC 2014 <X-Rob> BingoBoingo: The issue is not having the pool owner say 'Yes, I found block 1234', it's other people going 'Uh, actually, no, I found block 1234, here, it's addressed to me, here's me signing a transaction'
Mon Sep 08 21:24:20 UTC 2014 <X-Rob> But if I was to be offered say... 10* block reward to get block 1234 mined by pool B, I'd probably take that bet.
Mon Sep 08 21:22:51 UTC 2014 <X-Rob> So. Yes. Turns out you COULD pay him enough to do that.
Mon Sep 08 21:22:31 UTC 2014 <X-Rob> I saw an amusing comment on reddit yesterday, on a photo of someone climbing a massive radio tower. They said 'You couldn't pay me enough to do that', and someone responded with '72.6 billion dollars. Per hour'.
Mon Sep 08 21:21:24 UTC 2014 <X-Rob> Everyone's a whore. It's just the price that varies.
Mon Sep 08 21:20:21 UTC 2014 <X-Rob> tl;dr: It's possible, but unlikely for less than say 50 * block reward
Mon Sep 08 21:19:58 UTC 2014 <X-Rob> So.
Mon Sep 08 21:19:36 UTC 2014 <X-Rob> Time to orphan blocks.
Mon Sep 08 21:19:31 UTC 2014 <X-Rob> You still have a massive percentage of the hashrate of the entire btc network.