Possible feature: mining.submitfull() network message with full coinbase tx about stratum-mining HOT 2 OPEN

Hey Jonathan,

I had the idea of tunelling GF with Stratum when I read concerns about chinese pools, too. However I think this is infrastructure-specific addon and any additional RPC methods should not be available for miners, so I don't see a need to change reference implementation (AFAIK no pool is using this implementation without heavy changes anyway).

Problem with this setup is that both "blockchain validation server" which generates stratum jobs (outside China) and "stratum mining proxy" which broadcast jobs to end miners (in China mainland) must be operated by the same entity because of trust issue (hashrate hijacking, validating unofficial rules etc). I don't think it is feasible some large chinese pool will rely on "blockchain validation server" which is operated by another entity. Because of this, I actually don't think it is even needed to add "submitfull" RPC, because if you operates blockchain validation server yourself, you don't need to push coinbase from China anymore.

Anyway, I'm working on new version of Stratum and I'll publish paper soon. New protocol proposal adds some specific features which would be useful especially in enterprise setups like this (tunneling whole Chinese hashrate via single Stratum connection etc).

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Damn, I had a long message that I wanted to send you a few weeks ago, but I lost it due to the GFW and my browser not caching the result.

I'm interested in the new version of Stratum. If you want to chat and bounce some ideas off me, I'd love that. I also may be able to help with the coding of it, though I'm a bit occupied as I'm switching over to working on blocksize consensus stuff.

Speaking of which, I'd love it if I could get some information from you for the consensus census v1.0, https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Cg9Qo9Vl5PdJYD4EiHnIGMV3G48pWmcWI3NFoKKfIzU/edit#gid=0. Do you have opinions on those proposals you want to share? I'm also working on version 2.0, which is https://bitcoin.consider.it. Email me at [email protected] or find me on Skype (jtoomim).

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