I'm not talking about merged mining, but rather more like timesharing or multitasking.
A given miner might spend the day mining 20 different blockchains, all of the independent from one another.

My idea is that adding a blockchain identifier to the block would allow miners to mine any of a myriad of Bitcoin-like coins on the same ASIC hardware and know which is which in the block. It would make the miners agnostic about the different blockchains of this type.

Hello,
Is there a good reason any longer for the rule that the success of a Bitcoin proof of work has to be that there is an all-zero bits prefix?
Why not allow any 256-bit sequence?
For instance, suppose I want to create a blockchain just for mypersonaldomain.co. If I produce a SHA256 hash of that domain name and use that as the sequence of bits that the prefix must match, it would not conflict with the original Bitcoin blockchain and would be unique.
The Bitcoin block format would have to be revised to include my blockchain's 256-bit prefix so that nodes know what prefix they are solving for, but once that is done, the world could benefit from 2^256 unique blockchains.
Cheers.

Hello Satoshi,
Assuming that you still have your GPG private key, I have a question for you if you are willing to answer.
It's not really something anyone else can respond to.
Please post any encrypted answer here.
Thanks in advance.

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I have a certain amount of Bitcoin, not much at all, in my old blockchain.info account.
It seems that in order to pay someone a small sum e.g. US$1 from that account I'd have to pay more for the transaction than is in the account.
Is this a common situation nowadays?
What is the workaround?
If my money is in the blockchain, how can blockchain.info control it?

Hi folks,
There are many altcoins now.
Some use SHA256, some use Scrypt, etc.
But how do ones that use SHA256 in particular differ from one another?
I have a feeling the difference is rather trivial and meaningless.
Can anyone explain it in technical terms?
Thanks.

Hi all,
There is a multitude of altcoins now.
Some use SHA256, some use Scrypt, etc.
But how do ones that use SHA256 in particular differ from one another?
I have a feeling the difference is rather trivial and meaningless.
Can anyone explain in technical terms?
Thanks.