Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8E7EB7F for ; Mon, 17 Aug 2015 19:39:11 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from mail-la0-f41.google.com (mail-la0-f41.google.com [209.85.215.41]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DE40E191 for ; Mon, 17 Aug 2015 19:39:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by labd1 with SMTP id d1so86281152lab.1 for ; Mon, 17 Aug 2015 12:39:09 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=vsz5AY/qMnL1qWSNZcGptGBrt5pjbrlUsx94n6S2QuQ=; b=EX4y0NSjwxA00ijapa0QEo1PAuvgKtanJRPV+ApoiwahyqqEx9iZILYledQ2efFWJM qif7/ZwUYCM7Dx4SI/FY9BIFA/s16/WqnbJfdoIaVoBjxsyu1OiVDEysZbdAV+8pnb8l 8omBanwFhw2f5wF6AlzQZniczjtLELJDcZspBd+MAc984gAVaRxBoi1CEfncpPmQd0Om awlmGf2GYrsv53s2na2E2sLUBr2wbwkLXbXK6i8Mf2FLCjP8xgZX8JTp4ubnsFwc4iC4 SNlw4ElAdZlLfDH5yQdlFCQmiy9yfdrit7xoNs5/XqMwiPinebHqgHNMD+hgcW1nhjh9 StRw== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQk9R7rLI/YhXGPE+ghEniwhnaSUgiljDWJ9h685mdslzyOUdX4HXA2AeYITepvzXojK5WYF MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.112.146.106 with SMTP id tb10mr2427365lbb.22.1439840349104; Mon, 17 Aug 2015 12:39:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.25.15.22 with HTTP; Mon, 17 Aug 2015 12:39:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <6EC9DDF352DC4838AE9B088AB372428A25E1F42A@DS04> Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 21:39:08 +0200 Message-ID: From: =?UTF-8?B?Sm9yZ2UgVGltw7Nu?= To: Gregory Maxwell Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on smtp1.linux-foundation.org Cc: Bitcoin Dev Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin XT Fork X-BeenThere: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Bitcoin Development Discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 19:39:11 -0000 On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 9:28 PM, Gregory Maxwell via bitcoin-dev wrote: >> enter the mining game. A bit like making P2Pool the one and only pool >> allowed on the network. > > Thats been suggested, though scalablity reasons make this hard: in the > P2Pool design there is a substantial tradeoff in variance reduction vs > communicatoin costs. Pools could be somehow required to do p2pool between them, but there would still be pools to further reduce variance, no?