Yes, you're right. From metadata we can of course guess the country and maybe even the place, from
hashrate and other sessions we can guess the hardware and power consumption, from reconnects we
can guess some operations on site etc.
hashrate and other sessions we can guess the hardware and power consumption, from reconnects we
can guess some operations on site etc.
In fact I am asking these questions not as MitM between POOL and ASIC
I am interested - what kind of information can obtain POOL_ADMIN about ALL OTHER POOLS
if connect some his own ASICs to concurrent pools.
I want to discuss possible attack vector after segwit activation. Do not know
how to call it. Something like "witness-data-withholding attack". Pushing the mined block
without witness data to pre-segwit network and listening the actions on it from other pools
gives some interesting advantages to dishonest pool admin.
Moreover, some pools have some small differences in protocol, with specially tweaked miners software. But generally the doc is ok.