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I can't tell if you are trolling. If a mining node is sent a valid block, do you really think they don't start mining with the new merkle hash just incase they could hit two blocks faster than every other miner? Is that really how you think it works? If you can broadcast a transaction to a miner to be included in a block, why as a miner do you think they would disregard a valid block, and by what mechanism? Is this a real theory you have?

average_bitcoiner 9mo ago

There is very clear miscommunication here.

Although it was never answered, I assume Ocean would broadcast a solution via a stratum channel.

My argument is to the latency of propagation for a block as it pertains to nodes and how relevant that latency is for orphan blocks.

Broadcasting from a well-connected mining node will be built on more quickly than a home node broadcasting fan-out from their node.

If a DATUM user submits a solution via stratum, I would hope Ocean broadcasts from their node (assuming it well connected, as is best practice for mining pools)

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JackTheMimic 9mo ago

The latency we are talking about here is less than 500 milliseconds. If you are saying that 500 milliseconds is the deciding factor between a home miner and a commercial mining pool, I think you have a very strange sense of odds and statistics.

Again, a DATUM user broadcasts the transaction not OCEAN. once a valid block is broadcast (and received by the miner nodes as well) they begin to hash the next block.

The scenario you are talking about is unsolvable because of internet communications but also such an infinitesimal chance it's kind of hard to take seriously.

To be clear the scenario is that both a home miner and a corporate pool find blocks simultaneously (already improbable) and because of a more connected node AND the next block being found using the corporate miner's block merkle root. In most cases there are minutes, not milliseconds between valid block broadcasts.

This is such a strange hill to die on especially since it applies to the 2 largest pools as well. Foundry (american based) and AntPool (china based) could have the same thing happen because of the latency discrepancy between the two continents. OCEAN has nothing to do with this problem.