has anyone done a study on monero block propagation? basically, im curious if a subnetwork of solo mining daemons could get an edge over large pools somehow

basically, by allowing other solo daemons to get the new block faster, they have a greater chance of having the longer chain etc

of course, if this is just a maintained list, then a pool op could just connect directly to one of these nodes , or all, and nullify the potential advantage

though with fluffly blocks, and i know i typed that wrong but im not going back, news of a new block is really independent of blocksize and any potential advantage of being directly linked to a blockfinder may not be really anything

Sure. Large pools probally do that already. ;) Waiting for block propgation can be surprisingly lethal. When the XMR network was much smaller, that's why I ran the dedicated chain of daemons chosen at major POP's to help reduce latency across the network in general, because block transmission is slow.

The main issue you'll run into is that the larger network is going to get away from you if you don't put your blocks out there in a reasonable time. Functionally, you're proposing a small fork in the network by the solo-pools.

gingeropolous: so kind of like that bitcoin mining pool network thing?

sech1: tried it?

windows only I presume?

It's not out yet

LTT did a video yesterday

ah right september

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