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thethirdone
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Heating houses with high performance servers
> if I steal the mined block I get all the reward
How would you steal a block? Changing the target of the payment requires recomputing the nonce.
theptip
on Feb 14, 2017
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The value is in the proof of work; just a very hard-to-compute number. All you need to do to steal the work is to prevent the server from sending the hash to the owner, and independently submit that proof of work elsewhere.
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How would you steal a block? Changing the target of the payment requires recomputing the nonce.