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j"1LAnZuoQdcKCkpDBKQMCgziGMoPC4VQUckM³<div class="post"><div class="quoteheader"><a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1790.msg28696#msg28696">Quote from: satoshi on December 09, 2010, 09:02:42 PM</a></div><div class="quote">I think it would be possible for BitDNS to be a completely separate network and separate block chain, yet share CPU power with Bitcoin.&nbsp; The only overlap is to make it so miners can search for proof-of-work for both networks simultaneously.<br/></div><br/>sounds excellent in theory... <br/><br/><div class="quoteheader">Quote</div><div class="quote">The networks wouldn't need any coordination.&nbsp; Miners would subscribe to both networks in parallel.&nbsp; They would scan SHA such that if they get a hit, they potentially solve both at once.&nbsp; A solution may be for just one of the networks if one network has a lower difficulty.<br/><br/>I think an external miner could call getwork on both programs and combine the work.&nbsp; Maybe call Bitcoin, get work from it, hand it to BitDNS getwork to combine into a combined work.<br/></div><br/>seems that the miner would have to basically do "extra work". and if there's no reward from the bitdns mining from the extra work (which of course, slows down the main bitcoin work), what would be a miner's incentive to include bitdns (and whatever other side chains) ?<br/><br/>very curious to hear your further thoughts on this. <img alt="Smiley" border="0" src="/static/img/emoticons/smiley.gif"/></div> text/html