15:14:04 If anyone is interested in virtual attendance of the IEEE S&B workshop, here is the link: https://ieee-euro-sp-2020.consorzio-cini.it/ 15:14:39 Unfortunately there is a cost (61 EUR) and there are no student discounts 17:44:01 A miner could brute force the coinbase output key to get a leading/tailing byte equal to H(height||spend_secret_key). This hash will be very fast to compute, and save a few muls every block. Since the hash has the height, it leaves no trace on the chain since those marker bytes are ~random. Only works because the tx creator is also the receiver. 19:09:29 Finished my comments on ArticMine 's MoneroScaling2020 spec