Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin XT Fork

From: Jorge Timón <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 21:39:08 +0200

On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 9:28 PM, Gregory Maxwell via bitcoin-dev
<[email-masked]> wrote:
>> enter the mining game. A bit like making P2Pool the one and only pool
>> allowed on the network.
>
> Thats been suggested, though scalablity reasons make this hard: in the
> P2Pool design there is a substantial tradeoff in variance reduction vs
> communicatoin costs.

Pools could be somehow required to do p2pool between them, but there
would still be pools to further reduce variance, no?