Defending against empty or near empty blocks from malicious miner takeover?



Summary:

In an email conversation, Trevin Hofmann and Bryan discussed the issue of non-upgraded miners producing invalid blocks which will be orphaned. While Hofmann argued that if non-upgraded miners do not produce blocks that are invalid per new rules, their blocks will not be orphaned, Bryan contended that there is no need for a "wakeup call to upgrade" as the point of a soft-fork is to reduce incompatibility. He suggested that they can run "border nodes" to be more sure about this.


Updated on: 2023-06-11T22:31:52.414103+00:00