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Topic: Any info available about Discus Fish ? (Read 15442 times)

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legendary
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Ruu \o/
September 21, 2014, 08:39:35 AM
#19
There's already an official discus fish thread here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/f2pool-700411 so there's no need for another thread, but I'm pleased they're mining full sized blocks. Hopefully they're not also mining zero transaction blocks as an optimisation.

Locking this thread.
newbie
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September 04, 2014, 10:49:09 AM
#17
I've done some digging around about f2pool since I have some miners on it.  It looks like it is a mining pool associated with the SilverFish SCRYPT ASIC hardware maker.  

If you go to the Silverfish website, https://sfminer.com/

Translate the website to English, then click on the Whitebait SOLO mine pool which takes you to http://sfasic.com/

From there, it links you to the f2pool website and the ptspool website.  The ptspool website also links back to f2pool from a link called "Go to Other Mineral Pools"

I would conclude that f2pool is likely being run by Silverfish; but I could be wrong.  


Edit.  Or I could go back and read the first post on their thread, sorry I read too fast sometimes. https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.7915080
newbie
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September 04, 2014, 05:15:51 AM
#16

Is DF a private pool or a public one ?
There is any info about the pool fee or how to join DF ?


It's a private pool, in that it's in China.

You can probably join the pool if you move to China, become a Chinese citizen, and start a mining business.

LOL Cheesy Cheesy
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legendary
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Ruu \o/
September 02, 2014, 08:43:20 PM
#15
That's good to see then ^_^
legendary
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September 02, 2014, 08:15:24 PM
#14
Interesting that a large block, 894 KB, is attributed to Discus Fish, when they were mining small blocks for a long time.

https://blockchain.info/block-index/473463/000000000000000115abc804b9a98a06c6bd5a3aa70c5ad3537a396cebd3a00a
There's no such block. What were you trying to show? Bitcoind defaults to 750kb as the maximum block size and while we have some experimental ckpool instances mining larger blocks, I was not aware of any other pool doing so.

It was there when I posted the link. So must have been orphaned later. I did not imagine it.

Hmm usually blockchain stores orphans in its database and I doubt you'd have made up such a long URL.

Here's an example of a large block:
https://blockchain.info/block-index/460100

It is here: http://blockexplorer.com/block/000000000000000115abc804b9a98a06c6bd5a3aa70c5ad3537a396cebd3a00a

And size reported as 916KB.

Block number 289804

And is on bc.i where the path format is different from before...

https://blockchain.info/block/000000000000000115abc804b9a98a06c6bd5a3aa70c5ad3537a396cebd3a00a
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legendary
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Ruu \o/
September 02, 2014, 07:45:48 PM
#13
Interesting that a large block, 894 KB, is attributed to Discus Fish, when they were mining small blocks for a long time.

https://blockchain.info/block-index/473463/000000000000000115abc804b9a98a06c6bd5a3aa70c5ad3537a396cebd3a00a
There's no such block. What were you trying to show? Bitcoind defaults to 750kb as the maximum block size and while we have some experimental ckpool instances mining larger blocks, I was not aware of any other pool doing so.

It was there when I posted the link. So must have been orphaned later. I did not imagine it.

Hmm usually blockchain stores orphans in its database and I doubt you'd have made up such a long URL.

Here's an example of a large block:
https://blockchain.info/block-index/460100
legendary
Activity: 1078
Merit: 1002
100 satoshis -> ISO code
September 02, 2014, 05:44:19 PM
#12
Interesting that a large block, 894 KB, is attributed to Discus Fish, when they were mining small blocks for a long time.

https://blockchain.info/block-index/473463/000000000000000115abc804b9a98a06c6bd5a3aa70c5ad3537a396cebd3a00a
There's no such block. What were you trying to show? Bitcoind defaults to 750kb as the maximum block size and while we have some experimental ckpool instances mining larger blocks, I was not aware of any other pool doing so.

It was there when I posted the link. So must have been orphaned later. I did not imagine it.
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legendary
Activity: 4088
Merit: 1631
Ruu \o/
September 02, 2014, 06:43:54 AM
#11
Interesting that a large block, 894 KB, is attributed to Discus Fish, when they were mining small blocks for a long time.

https://blockchain.info/block-index/473463/000000000000000115abc804b9a98a06c6bd5a3aa70c5ad3537a396cebd3a00a
There's no such block. What were you trying to show? Bitcoind defaults to 750kb as the maximum block size and while we have some experimental ckpool instances mining larger blocks, I was not aware of any other pool doing so.
full member
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August 27, 2014, 09:26:47 PM
#10
They the big fish now!  Cool
legendary
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March 09, 2014, 10:57:11 PM
#9
Interesting that a large block, 894 KB, is attributed to Discus Fish, when they were mining small blocks for a long time.

https://blockchain.info/block-index/473463/000000000000000115abc804b9a98a06c6bd5a3aa70c5ad3537a396cebd3a00a
hero member
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February 03, 2014, 09:06:56 AM
#8
http://www.f2pool.com/
PPS mineral pools, 4% fee.

edit: 3% fee.

sign up possible, its not private pool. they offer as option payouts to BTCChina in ¥.

Thanks for the info. Smiley
sr. member
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January 31, 2014, 06:23:39 PM
#7
Ah, nice to know.  I'll update blockorigin to point to that site (I haven't been able to pinpoint that pool, but then again, I haven't had much time to work on blockorigin lately)
hero member
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'All that glitters is not gold'
January 31, 2014, 06:16:41 PM
#6
http://www.f2pool.com/
PPS mineral pools, 4% fee.

edit: 3% fee.

sign up possible, its not private pool. they offer as option payouts to BTCChina in ¥.

Thank you for your update !
member
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Just Fun!
January 31, 2014, 12:17:48 PM
#5
http://www.f2pool.com/
PPS mineral pools, 4% fee.

edit: 3% fee.

sign up possible, its not private pool. they offer as option payouts to BTCChina in ¥.
hero member
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Merit: 1000
'All that glitters is not gold'
January 20, 2014, 07:47:32 AM
#4

Is DF a private pool or a public one ?
There is any info about the pool fee or how to join DF ?


It's a private pool, in that it's in China.

You can probably join the pool if you move to China, become a Chinese citizen, and start a mining business.


LOL !  Cheesy Cheesy
hero member
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January 20, 2014, 04:28:56 AM
#3

Is DF a private pool or a public one ?
There is any info about the pool fee or how to join DF ?


It's a private pool, in that it's in China.

You can probably join the pool if you move to China, become a Chinese citizen, and start a mining business.
member
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Merit: 10
January 20, 2014, 03:01:22 AM
#2
http://www.f2pool.com/
PPS mineral pools, 4% fee.
hero member
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'All that glitters is not gold'
January 18, 2014, 11:07:27 AM
#1
Hello !

As you can see Discus Fish is a major player on Bitcoin world.





Is DF a private pool or a public one ?
There is any info about the pool fee or how to join DF ?


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