APoW: Auditable Proof-of-Work Against Block Withholding Attacks
arXiv:2601.02496v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce APoW, a novel proof-of-work (PoW) construction inspired by Hashcash-style nonce searching, which enables the auditing of other miners’ work through accountable re-scanning of the nonce space. The proposed scheme allows a miner to probabilistically attest to having searched specified regions of the nonce space in earlier mining rounds, while concurrently earning rewards for performing productive work for a new block or pool share. This capability enables miners belonging to a mining […]