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 Also, how do you detect block witholding? 
 You detect it with statistical analysis.  If Mallory is excessively unlucky, e.g. she's submitted 3x as many shares as necessary to find a block but none of her shares were blocks, you ban her. 
 Hmm. I'm no statistician but that sounds imprecise. And ban at the user account level?  
 It's very imprecise.  Worse, it's only useful for individuals who contribute large amounts of hashrate, i.e. those who could reasonably solo mine.  nostr:nprofile1qqsvvk9qy7qx2gzed6wazxtureunuxljam66za6yr3p02zc0qhz57jqpzemhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejz7qgcwaehxw309ahx7um5wghxvmt59emkj73wvf5h5tcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhs0dsl3l makes the point that the difficulty of preventing block withholding could be a significant contributor to limiting pool options: https://mailing-list.bitcoindevs.xyz/bitcoindev/Zp%2FGADXa8J146Qqn@erisian.com.au/