Friday, May 9, 2025

Something definitely fishy going on


full image - Repost: Something definitely fishy going on (from Reddit.com, Something definitely fishy going on)
At the time of writing, P2Pool main and mini observers report that both pools have about 330+ MH/s. However, their rate of mini hitting blocks is clearly not normal (screenshots of main and mini).Turns out, the top miner on mini, by himself, owns 300+ MH/s. Meaning, he's hogging almost all the pool shares. You'd expect him hitting a block or two, right? But no, he didn't hit any block. I refuse to believe it's simple coincidence.To me, it seems like he's deliberately fking with mini. It possibly also showcases an interesting weakness of P2Pool:A dishonest miner with vast majority of the pool's hash rate can hog all the pool's shares while willingly withholding blocks. The small-time miners are forced to find blocks themselves while the pool payout goes mostly to the dishonest miner.Because he's deliberately withholding blocks, it doesn't increase the network difficulty. Thus, he continues to enjoy his unique position of getting paid while leeching off of honest miners.I've read about similar issues with PPS pools where a malicious miner would withhold blocks to not raise the network difficulty while getting paid for the lower difficulty shares. It'd be really funny if somehow PPS is an emergent feature of P2Pool's structure.u/sech1, I'd like to hear your opinion on this situation.


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