Introducing APoW: Auditable Mining Against Block Withholding
Fairgate published a research post introducing APoW, a proposed Proof-of-Work design that makes mining effort auditable to mitigate block withholding attacks in mining pools. The paper outlines how auditable mining could enable stronger security guarantees and more decentralized pool architectures through verifiable work attribution.
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APoW: Auditable Proof-of-Work Against Block Withholding Attacks
At the core of APoW is the concept of v-mining (verification mining). A miner can be assigned to re-scan the same nonce space previously explored by another miner, using a modified PoW condition based on pattern matching rather than leading zeros.