Author: Gavin Andresen 2015-12-04 17:34:27
Published on: 2015-12-04T17:34:27+00:00
The email thread discusses various aspects of a proposed Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) to mitigate the 'accidental selfish mining' problem. The author requests a write-up explaining the problem and how validation-skipping helps in mitigating it. The use of bit 0 instead of bit 30 is suggested to avoid confusion. Another participant suggests that SPV clients should only be informed about fully validated headers. The idea of immediately relaying full-proof-of-work blocks before validation with an indication of non-validated status is also discussed, which did not reach a consensus earlier.
Updated on: 2023-06-11T01:36:30.339601+00:00