[Bitcoin-development] libzerocoin released, what about a zerocoin-only alt-coin with either-or mining
Pieter Wuille
pieter.wuille at gmail.com
Sun Jul 14 19:42:06 UTC 2013
On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 07:33:06PM +0000, Luke-Jr wrote:
> > The issue is that unless there is a cost to mining a *invalid* block
> > the merge mined coin has little protection from miners who mine invalid
> > blocks, either maliciously or through negligence. If the coin isn't worth
> > much, either because it's market value is low or the worth is negative to
> > the malicious miner, your theories of value have nothing to do with the
> > issue.
>
> Invalid blocks are rejected by validating clients in all circumstances.
I don't think that's what John means.
If you have hash power for the parent chain, mining invalid blocks for the
merge-mined chain costs you nothing. Yes, they will be invalid, but you've
lost nothing.
The basic assumption underlying mining security is that it is more profitable
to collaborate with mining a chain (and profit from the block payout) than to
attack it. In the case of merged mining, this assumption is not valid.
--
Pieter
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