Bitmain & John McAfee to Open Bitcoin Mining Pool

[iFixBTCmemoryIssues]

http://www.investopedia.com/news/bitmai ... ning-pool/

This is really, really good.

John McAffee is a really solid person to have in the Bitcoin eco-system!!!!!!!!!!!!

Best of mining luck

[rogerver]

Does anyone have a link to the actual pool URL?
Google isn't being helpful for me today.

[bcbenn]

Does anyone have a link to the actual pool URL?
Google isn't being helpful for me today.

Asked by Roger Ver himself???

[pokapeski]

You can find more information from the company itself here:
https://www.mgtci.com/blockchain
but it shows no link.

[torusJKL]

This sounds like a good initiative and will hopefully help decentralize mining further.

[bitcoin.casino]

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? Considering that MGTI is in fact a penny stock, it seems like it could also possibly be another penny stock news announcement hoping to drum up interest in MGTI. Interestingly, it is up 1 penny today (1.2%) at $0.84...

[bcbenn]

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? Considering that MGTI is in fact a penny stock, it seems like it could also possibly be another penny stock news announcement hoping to drum up interest in MGTI. Interestingly, it is up 1 penny today (1.2%) at $0.84...

This thread is from Nov, 2016. It was revived today when Roger Ver's account posted asking for the URL of the pool. I assume this "bump" was somehow an advertising initiative. Why it was posted by Roger Ver's official account is beyond me. Perhaps this is exactly why though. To create a discussion in this thread. The pool has been up for months, pool.bitcoin.com. Not difficult to find by any means. In fact, if you actually take a deeper look at all the threads on this forum, you'll find that a large majority likely source from insider accounts and are actually search engine bait. But the pool recently mined 2 instantaneous pairs of blocks consecutively (i.e. 2 blocks with the same time stamp.) Two are consecutive blocks and two are a number of blocks apart. It doesn't make sense. I posted asking for an explanation in the pool's official thread a few hours ago, but there has been no response so far. The point of this pool is not to generate a profit, but to use it's power to influence the fork towards bitcoin unlimited. Roger Ver would be completely satisfied with a hard fork. If this occurs, forget any mainstream ETFs ever getting approved, forget all the rules that say BTCs value will continue to rise. I don't think Ver has been truthful in his real motivations for supporting BTU. I think while Ver has a lot to gain, BTC does not. I don't think this pool is open about it's practices. It has however been paying honestly, I believe. But I will be cashing out and pointing my rigs elsewhere.

[rogerver]

Lots of replies, but no one found the link.
Someone on Reddit pointed me in the right direction though: http://macpool.us/
The reason I was interested was because I heard they were using the Bitcoin.com widget, so I wanted to see it in the wild.

@bcbenn, This thread isn't about pool.bitcoin.com, so I think you are writing in the wrong place on the wrong topic.