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by bcbenn
Wed Mar 22, 2017 4:29 pm
Forum: Media
Topic: Bitmain & John McAfee to Open Bitcoin Mining Pool
Replies: 7
Views: 3226

Re: Bitmain & John McAfee to Open Bitcoin Mining Pool

Bitmain already runs Antpool and its the the largest mining pool there is. So what does this letter of intent really mean? Could it be just a public announcement of the company's plans to acquire X number of bitmain mining computers and set up yet another pool? Or is there something I am missing ...
by bcbenn
Wed Mar 22, 2017 12:34 pm
Forum: Media
Topic: Bitmain & John McAfee to Open Bitcoin Mining Pool
Replies: 7
Views: 3226

Re: Bitmain & John McAfee to Open Bitcoin Mining Pool

Does anyone have a link to the actual pool URL?
Google isn't being helpful for me today.
Asked by Roger Ver himself???
by bcbenn
Wed Mar 22, 2017 10:22 am
Forum: Pool
Topic: Bitcoin.com Mining Pool Official Discussion Thread
Replies: 1491
Views: 791628

Re: Bitcoin.com Mining Pool Official Discussion Thread

On the "Blocks" page, I notice 4 recent blocks that appear to have been found in pairs (i.e. the latter block has the exact same timestamp as the previous block.) The second block in the pair shows exactly 100.0% difficulty for both instances. The two blocks found at 20 Mar 2017 07:19:26 have ...
by bcbenn
Wed Mar 15, 2017 5:30 am
Forum: Pool
Topic: Bitcoin.com Mining Pool Official Discussion Thread
Replies: 1491
Views: 791628

Re: Bitcoin.com Mining Pool Official Discussion Thread

Hey, sorry not to clarify. By Ndiff, I meant for how many network difficulty cycles are the shares averaged over for calculating share precentage and reward when a block is found? For instance for Kano pool, it is 5Ndiff, for Antpool's PPLNS payment it is 2.5Ndiff.
For us, it's 3Ndiff

So about ...
by bcbenn
Wed Mar 15, 2017 3:50 am
Forum: Pool
Topic: Bitcoin.com Mining Pool Official Discussion Thread
Replies: 1491
Views: 791628

Re: Bitcoin.com Mining Pool Official Discussion Thread

Hey, sorry not to clarify. By Ndiff, I meant for how many network difficulty cycles are the shares averaged over for calculating share precentage and reward when a block is found? For instance for Kano pool, it is 5Ndiff, for Antpool's PPLNS payment it is 2.5Ndiff.
by bcbenn
Tue Mar 14, 2017 7:13 pm
Forum: Pool
Topic: Bitcoin.com Mining Pool Official Discussion Thread
Replies: 1491
Views: 791628

Re: Bitcoin.com Mining Pool Official Discussion Thread

Hi, great work on the pool. Kudos to yourself, your backend devs, and your graphic designer! I just have 2 questions.
1. At 110% block reward, you must be coming near breaking even on the pool. Even with the high transaction fees nowadays that you retain, I can't imagine the pool is too profitable ...

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