FiberPool: Leveraging Multiple Blockchains for Decentralized Pooled Mining

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Autori principali: Sakurai, Akira, Shudo, Kazuyuki
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author Sakurai, Akira
Shudo, Kazuyuki
author_facet Sakurai, Akira
Shudo, Kazuyuki
contents The security of blockchain systems based on Proof of Work relies on mining. However, mining suffers from unstable revenue, prompting many miners to form cooperative mining pools. Most existing mining pools operate in a centralized manner, which undermines the decentralization principle of blockchain. Distributed mining pools offer a practical solution to this problem. Well-known examples include P2Pool and SmartPool. However, P2Pool encounters scalability and security issues in its early stages. Similarly, SmartPool is not budget-balanced and imposes fees due to its heavy use of the smart contract. In this research, we present a distributed mining pool named FiberPool to address these challenges. FiberPool integrates a smart contract on the main chain, a storage chain for sharing data necessary for share verification, and a child chain to reduce fees associated with using and withdrawing block rewards. We validate the mining fairness, budget balance, reward stability, and incentive compatibility of the payment scheme FiberPool Proportional adopted by FiberPool.
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spellingShingle FiberPool: Leveraging Multiple Blockchains for Decentralized Pooled Mining
Sakurai, Akira
Shudo, Kazuyuki
Cryptography and Security
The security of blockchain systems based on Proof of Work relies on mining. However, mining suffers from unstable revenue, prompting many miners to form cooperative mining pools. Most existing mining pools operate in a centralized manner, which undermines the decentralization principle of blockchain. Distributed mining pools offer a practical solution to this problem. Well-known examples include P2Pool and SmartPool. However, P2Pool encounters scalability and security issues in its early stages. Similarly, SmartPool is not budget-balanced and imposes fees due to its heavy use of the smart contract. In this research, we present a distributed mining pool named FiberPool to address these challenges. FiberPool integrates a smart contract on the main chain, a storage chain for sharing data necessary for share verification, and a child chain to reduce fees associated with using and withdrawing block rewards. We validate the mining fairness, budget balance, reward stability, and incentive compatibility of the payment scheme FiberPool Proportional adopted by FiberPool.
title FiberPool: Leveraging Multiple Blockchains for Decentralized Pooled Mining
topic Cryptography and Security
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.15459