03:20:38 plowsof: I did see I'm in a very unfortunate position regarding the community meeting timeline (or very favorable, if it would take about two weeks to solicit opinions and this meeting is right at two weeks after my posting). Would you mind raising if I have issues actively present/letting me know what else I should do before the next meeting? 03:21:10 Ugh. Absolutely wrong room. Sorry. Misclick. Will move. 17:19:36 Monero: add 1 Hz “workshares” to harden liveness & selfish-mining resistance 17:19:37 TL;DR 17:19:39 Think of PoW as an information sampling process. Right now we get ~1 sample every 120 s (one block). 17:19:41 Add a tiny, header-only workshare object that miners emit at ~1 per second network-wide. 17:19:43 Let each block claim recent shares and make chain selection use block weight = 120 + number of claimed shares (simple mode). 17:19:45 Result: ~120× more independent samples per 2 minutes ⇒ way tighter consensus, much harder to stall or game with <51% hashpower. 17:19:47 Optional: split rewards proportionally to contributed work (prevents withholding). See “Proportional Splitting (PRS)” ideas: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.10185 17:19:49 Why this helps (intuition, not heavy math) 17:19:51 Every valid proof (block or share) that points to the current parent is one independent piece of evidence about honest hash-rate and the “right” tip. More pieces = less uncertainty. (If you like names: this is the Cramér–Rao story—more samples ↓ variance.) 17:19:53 In longest-chain designs without shares, a ~30–33% miner can sometimes profit by withholding (keep a private block, try to win a tie later). 17:19:55 With 1 Hz shares, the honest network’s public lead is being updated every second. A withheld block is fighting against ~120 public shares accumulating behind the honest tip. Unless the attacker is near 51%, that game stops paying. 17:21:21 RIP to irc 20:35:49 Long time no chat 21:02:39 yeah, its been a minute