Ok, so if I understand that correctly, Datum flow assumes that miners behave honestly. What if there are bad actors that would join Ocean with their own Datum servers and then when block is found included only their address in coinbase? Is that even an attack? Does that rouge miner win anything? Does it disrupt Ocean’s operations? At first glance I do not see any incentive for bad actors to act like that. Not sure if I miss anything. image

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Yes, I think it'd be an attack because Ocean would be crediting the attacker's shares to receive payouts from other honest miners, while they'd get to keep the full reward when they find a block. However the protocol doesn't assume that miners behave honestly because they share their templates with the pool for inspection: Sharing the full template is not strictly necessary, though. I believe the datum_gateway could just send the block header, the coinbase transaction and a Merkle proof of inclusion of that transaction. But I don't know if that's what they have in mind for future versions of DATUM.
It is my understanding that whatever is submitted to @OCEAN in order to get credit for reward splits would make it obvious if you were mining a template that only paid out to your own Bitcoin address, excluding the rest of the pool from any rewards you, such that OCEAN would no longer include you in those reward splits sent to other miners. Am I incorrect in that assumption @Bitcoin Mechanic ?