[Resource Topic] 2019/1081: OCEAN: A Built-In Replacement for Mining Pools

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Title:
OCEAN: A Built-In Replacement for Mining Pools

Authors: Raymond Chee, Kartik Chitturi, Edouard Dufour-Sans, Kyle Soska

Abstract:

We propose OCEAN, an alternative miner reward system for blockchains that seeks to discourage pooling by providing a pool’s variance mitigation functionality as a blockchain built-in. Our proposal relies on Succinct, Non-interactive Arguments of Knowledge (SNARKs), an advanced modern cryptographic tool that enables anyone to prove complex statements with the proof not growing in size with the complexity of the statement. We expect that blockchains that implement our proposal would see less pooling centralization than what is currently observable in deployed cryptocurrencies.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/1081

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