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RE: RAC versus TCD: Case study 3
Do you think the potential TDC exploits would be as much of a concern if daily mining rewards were normalized across all of BOINC rather than per project?
Do you think the potential TDC exploits would be as much of a concern if daily mining rewards were normalized across all of BOINC rather than per project?
That's a good point. In that case the exploits would definitely be less of a concern since they would be 'diluted' across multiple projects.
Recently there were a couple of suggestions on how to normalize rewards across all of BOINC: here and here. It seems the challenge lies in calculating magnitude consistently (and securely!) across projects and hardware types. It appears unlikely we'd solve these issues in the near term, but I think the suggestions are definitely worth keeping in mind in the long term.
I have followed those posts and at first I wasn't sure why globally normalizing credit should be a priority but as I am gaining a better understanding of how the current systems are all so very dependent on each other and that there will be a ripple effect for any of the v4.0 road map items.
It seems like traditionally the fairness of payments has come at the cost of flexibility and as improvements are made that allow flexibility in the network fairness is being threatened.
Right. I think we can still get a fair reward system running, but yeah we'll have to be more deliberate about it with the v 4.0 roadmap simplifications.
Well said, that sums up the way I feel about the situation.