The big improvements BetterHash brings, IMO: 1/ Individual miners regain their right to propose blocks 2/ Authenticated connections between miners & pools - something Stratum didn't have 3/ Reduced latency by eliminating the dependency on a centralized getblocktemplate() service
Good article, I think we agree there. You don't think transparency is a benefit of BetterHash? That should help with "allowing people to secure it".
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Transparency is the opposite of anonymity, and that's what ultimately allows people to secure it, and is the reason for decentralization. But I'm not sure what you mean by transparency in this context.
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Sure, there're types of transparency. Transparency in BetterHash's context means that if pools do something shady, it's very easy to find out. So it's pool transparency not miner transparency.
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It's even more than that, though. We not only learn if they do something shady, but in order to do so their users have to take explicit action to implement a change!
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Sadly, there is no way to identify if a pool is censoring transactions today, so even some transparency would be really nice, but going the extra step and making it a hard-to-change default is a pretty big difference, especially when it happens at once so you can compete.
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