Damus
m0wer · 4d
DATUM allows for pooled mining while each miner decides on their block template. That's what I was referring to. Currently, you can mine for Ocean pool and get paid the proportional share of your has...
JackTheMimic profile picture
There's no way to know that a miner's hash corresponds to a block template that they show you. OCEAN would only know that their block template or at least one of the transactions within it are invalid when they produce the valid proof of work hash.

Put simply, OCEAN does not pay for invalid blocks. So if you produce a hash that is under the difficulty setting, but one of the transactions is invalid. It's no different than presenting a proof-of-work block that has a double spend in it.
m0wer · 4d
Of course there is! What would be the point to mining otherwise! The block hash includes the merkle root of the transactions, so it could be verified easily. And it must be checked! Otherwise how does the pool know to what address you are mining the reward to? Would a pool pay a miner that might be...