0 sats \ 14 replies \ @BenAllenG 11 May \ parent \ on: Bitcoin for a multi-planetary civilization science
The point is that they could. It would be a permissioned network on Mars completely at the whim of Earth.
I don't see why Earth <=> Mars relations would end up any different than how the relationships of countries on earth work, sometimes good, sometimes bad.
But by that logic it's a permissioned network at the at the whim of Earth miners now as well. Yet they mine my transactions without even checking if I'm an Earthling, just because I pay the going rate.
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You're right, but I am reasonably able to build and maintain a miner which could find a block without having to travel to another planet if my transactions were not getting mined.
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My point is miners don't know they are Martian txs, and there would be relay services that accept encrypted Martian txs in order to rebroadcast them on Earth.
Even today mining your own txs is unrealistic. To get into a block in the next week you would need ~1/1000th of total network hash rate, i.e. ~600 PH/s - that's equivalent to about 2000 Bitmain s21 miners and the power to run them.
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It could be censorship for any reason, it doesn't require some war between Mars and Earth to have your own personal txs censored. Regarding the unreasonable burden to run your own mining pool on Earth vs the mathematically improbable case that those same miners on Mars would be able to mine 4+ txs to reorg the chain and get your tx mined I think is I large and reasonable distinction to make.
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You're not addressing my point though -> miners have no way of knowing which txs are Martian txs.
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They likely would be able to tell if any timestamps were ~16min outdated
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Bitcoin transactions don't have timestamps. The whole point of a blockchain is to order transactions in "time". Before they are in a block, transactions are timeless.
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But you can know when your miner receives a tx, if I had 2 validating nodes, one on Mars and one on earth I could easily track where the tx originated.
I think you've lost my point, they do have a way of know MY transactions though. And if I happen to live on Mars, I'm fucked
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They don't.
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Anyone who's touched a blacklisted TX on an exchange would disagree, any miner could choose to follow those same rules
*3000 s21 miners
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