Mining pools serve a crucial yet relatively mundane role in the mining process by providing a focal point for hashing power and enabling small-scale miners to collaborate with others. If bitcoin mining is a competitive sport that pits miners against each other to discover new blocks and generate more bitcoins, then mining pools are the teams on which they play.
Still, despite this importance, mining pools have not been the most transparent sector of the crypto economy.
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Topic: [2014-09-20]How Discus Fish Became China’s Largest Bitcoin Mining Pool (Read 1682 times)
September 20, 2014, 09:16:40 AM
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