Questions tagged [mining-pools]
A mining pool is a way of sharing the work needed to find a block. Miners are rewarded in proportion to the amount of computing power they contribute to the problem, with various ways of calculating returns. Use this tag when specifically asking about operating a mining pool or about pooled mining but not other forms of mining.
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Why don't any cryptocurrencies have built-in mining pools? [closed]
It seems like basically everyone uses a mining pool. Is there any blockchain that effectively makes every user/node part of the same mining pool? Even just a whitepaper for this concept would be great ...
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How could pool-resistant mining change the censorship resistance of Bitcoin?
Researching mining centralization in Bitcoin, I came across Wownero's solo-mining only pool resistance. There do not seem to exist any pool
mining Wownero as shown in miningpoolstats.stream.
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How should I order the block header data in messages with the pool?
First i am creating this post to benefit all of you who are really into understanding and building your own miner from the scratch. There is so many materials but rarely have anything in common.
I ...
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Which bitcoin mining pools can be used with a Bitaxe miner?
I recently acquired a Bitaxe bitcoin miner.
Which mining pools can I configure it to be used with?
It's default pool was configured to mine to https://web.public-pool.io, but when I search on that ...
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Schedule programmatically ASIC mining
i'm looking to get into ASIC mining buying something around 1kW of power.
I have photovoltaic panels at home and during the day I have excessive power I can use to mine. I'm not set on a specific ...
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Any man-in-the-middle (MITM) hashrate theft examples
One benefit of Stratum V1 to Stratum V2 is protection from man-in-the-middle (MITM) hashrate theft.
Are there any documented examples of man-in-the-middle (MITM) hashrate theft in practice ?
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How do I start mining bitcoin [duplicate]
How do I start mining bitcoin I saw many asking bout mining sections and hash rate please how do I start
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What were the most popular bitcoin mining softwares, services or platforms in or before january 2010?
My friend who died few weeks back, He claimed that he mined bitcoin using his personal computer
back in the days
he said.
But i had a glimpse of an archive he named
btc.gz
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How to pick the block in which a transaction will get mined?
I am developping a bot for a customer with the following goals in mind:
to inscribe a satoshi with the block number that it has been mined in (ordinal inscription) on every block. i think this is ...
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Do any mining rig configurations divide hashing into pieces to be distributed across nodes?
Are there any mining rig configurations in which a block is divided some how so that multiple nodes can process a piece of the same block in some sort of divide and conquer approach?
For example if ...
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how to obtain the IP addresses of nodes for mining pools?
I have set up a node for mining, and in order to maintain network stability and quickly receive the latest tasks, I would like to connect to nodes of some large mining pools. Does anyone know how to ...
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Why does the Stratum protocol use a Share Difficulty of 2^32?
In the comments below his answer to my recent question about Network Difficulty, Pieter noted that Stratum Share Difficulty is an entirely separate concept. See https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/...
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Why does Bitcoin Core enable out of band txs with prioritisetransaction RPC
Why make it easy for miners/pools to prioritize transactions out of band when there's an option for RBF and CPFP where a miner/pool has to incur cost in sats? It seems to me that Bitcoin Core ...
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What is wrong with this JSON-RPC? (via BTC.com)
The subscribe message works. But the authorization does not. I was wondering why I cannot get this to work. The expected outcome is to have a miner that is logged in and has no errors in authorization,...
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How does the network protect itself against attacks where one miner with a lot of hashing power lies that it takes 10 minutes to create a block?
Assume some very "strong" miner that can produce a new block (find a correct nonce) on average every 3 minutes. Everything is fine as long as he sets the right timestamp (the one ...
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