Are Bitcoin's blocks signed by the miner? To my understanding, at no point in the Bitcoin Whitepaper does it say that blocks are signed by the miner. However, one could see the advantage of having blocks signed.
Thus I wonder if in the implementation of Bitcoin, blocks are signed by miners? Or maybe I missed it in the Whitepaper?
Thanks!
A sort of. Not a cryptographic signature, but each miner is incentivized to use one of its own BTC addresses as recipient of coinbase (reward) transaction. This links the block to the miner, with the same strength each UTXO is linked to its owner (I want to stress that there isn't native identity concept in bitcoin's blockchain, so we can say that the attribution allowed by core methods is already implemented)
Can you elaborate on signature (maybe stronger one) advantages, from your POV? Thanks