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Yeah every share points to a weak block. A share is just the block header hash but the block header contains the merkle root hash of the transactions contained in the block template. So every share builds on a bitcoin block template. You can look at the difficulty of the share to get a good estimate of how much hash power is attempting to mine the transactions in that template.
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vnprc 5mo ago

We don't currently propagate weak blocks but there have been proposals to do exactly this to solve the compact blocks issue I linked to. Additional reading: https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/second-look-at-weak-blocks/805/1

Also, decentralized mining pools like P2Pool and Braidpool track weak blocks in a blockchain (or block DAG in braidpool's case) in order to reach decentralized consensus on share accounting.

We need decentralized pools anyway, why not also use their weak blocks for fee estimation and compact block propagation? It's not a perfect signal but more data usually leads to better estimates.

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YODL 5mo ago

Some things to ponder. Thanks for info and links

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vnprc 5mo ago

Thanks for reading and, more importantly, thinking deeply about my points. 🙏