Tag: mining-pools

5 Slow but effective mining as a learning tool 2013-07-21T16:36:34.003

5 How does a miner insert the hash of a merged-mined alt chain's transaction into a Bitcoin transaction? 2013-07-30T02:29:13.633

5 What is the difference between mining with multiple workers vs single? 2013-10-26T07:21:58.377

5 CGMiner no output (LTC GPU mining) 2013-11-30T10:39:10.577

5 Incentive for mining by regular users 2013-12-21T19:37:25.487

5 BFGMiner vs. CGMiner 2014-02-23T18:14:31.707

5 Are there any mining pools that publish what transactions they will include? 2014-03-03T06:02:15.657

5 Why is everyone encouraging the use of P2Pool as the answer to the 51% problem? 2014-06-22T13:40:28.340

5 How do mining pool operators work? 2014-06-30T18:43:23.807

5 How much power and cost do miners currently expend to mine one bitcoin? 2016-12-23T07:18:14.997

5 How does solving reduced difficulty hashes contribute to solving a block? 2017-07-16T05:58:32.013

4 Mining pool hardware and bandwidth requirements 2011-10-27T19:09:30.137

4 Are there any mining pools that allow a specified amount of bitcoins to be sent to a chosen address? 2011-12-12T01:51:50.077

4 Would it be possible to create a mining pool service that specifically processed only certain transactions? 2012-01-06T11:10:52.333

4 What .dat files are safe to be accessed while the Bitcoin client is running? 2012-01-23T14:05:36.533

4 Are big miners a threat for Bitcoin? 2012-03-25T14:00:55.437

4 What is the correct algorithm to calculate worker & pool hashrate 2012-11-09T17:37:37.700

4 What's the probability of vanity pools causing RIPEMD-160 (public key hash) collisions? 2012-12-12T06:18:20.317

4 Eloipool only public Server avaiable 2012-12-19T04:26:08.043

4 How does a share hash compare to a block hash? Can a miner view the contents of the current block? 2013-02-28T13:21:54.333

4 Does the Share Difficulty given to each miner matter? 2013-03-03T21:08:47.490

4 A full/multi nonce range search or just a partial range search? 2013-04-17T00:35:18.800

4 Merged Mining Disadvantages 2013-04-19T16:08:44.783

4 Work rejected. Server says: Stale or alien proof of work 2013-04-21T15:43:46.220

4 Which mining pools do not require account creation? 2013-05-04T00:17:33.597

4 Wouldn't the expected return of a mining pool be no more than solo mining? 2013-05-10T03:13:13.183

4 Who came up with pooled mining? 2013-05-21T15:05:46.857

4 How does a share help in the discovery of a new block? 2013-05-27T07:40:07.190

4 How can I make my own pool? 2013-06-01T17:30:23.200

4 What happens when the nonce field overflows? 2013-08-27T12:17:06.600

4 Protocols for use between mining clients and mining pool servers 2013-09-07T09:25:22.620

4 Public mining pool account w private access 2013-09-24T15:07:52.727

4 Is there a real threat of so called ">50% attack"? 2013-12-16T08:43:50.277

4 Do you need to download the entire blockchain in order to mine bitcoins? 2013-12-19T16:35:13.080

4 Should p2pool submit all shares? 2014-01-03T17:21:49.103

4 How do you setup your own Bitcoin / Litecoin / Primecoin / Altcoin pool? Whats a good tutorial? 2014-01-05T22:49:27.677

4 What is the relationship between hash rate and accepted shares? 2014-01-08T21:13:36.567

4 How widespread is OP_RETURN forwarding and mining (as of February 2014)? 2014-02-14T01:27:24.960

4 What prevents miners in a pool from retaining the reward? 2014-06-30T11:37:50.733

4 How do I make a profit buying cloud-hashing contracts? 2015-02-24T13:22:46.207

4 How Do I create a Mining Pool for an Altcoin? 2015-03-12T22:47:51.887

4 What is the difference between Gridseed ASIC and Scrypt ASIC 2015-10-15T10:22:01.293

4 Preventing transaction fee collusion between large miners 2016-06-04T20:58:51.417

4 Is it possible to build mining reward pooling directly into Bitcoin? 2016-06-16T12:07:42.783

4 Is equihash/scrypt suitable for pooled mining? 2016-10-29T13:04:36.723

4 Mining Block header bit reversing 2017-09-16T10:40:19.023

4 How does mining pool ensure the miner works on the problem? 2017-11-05T23:33:43.003

4 Why does a bigger block size infer miner centralisation? 2017-11-12T14:27:02.880

4 How does a full node benefit from receiving a block with a version number in its header? 2019-03-24T18:15:45.057

3 How can I participate in a mining pool that is mining Litecoins? 2011-10-26T01:28:29.393

3 Which operating system would work best with pushpool? 2011-12-12T02:20:21.887

3 Why does P2Pool show up on BitcoinWatch.com if it's P2P? 2012-01-30T11:28:29.630

3 Miner username and password - does it need to be unique in the major pools? 2012-02-08T05:53:07.833

3 Pool getwork "target"? 2012-02-15T06:09:08.760

3 Does the size of a pool affect the number of invalid shares? 2012-03-07T17:53:15.787

3 Under what circumstances would a server submit new work to a miner? 2012-03-31T20:40:12.817

3 What can a pool operator do with their miners' hashpower? 2012-04-24T16:51:29.400

3 Which mining pools use custom mining software? 2012-05-10T14:11:03.373

3 Can bitcoins be traced by pool workers? 2012-06-04T12:44:01.633

3 How to run a litecoin miner behind a proxy server? 2012-07-07T02:11:58.380

3 How much internet traffic does a 3.5GH/sec pooled miner use? 2012-08-13T18:48:13.513

3 Tracking Hash/sec of major pools and individual (solo) miners 2012-09-29T16:51:39.797

3 How do mining pool payout methods affect the cost of executing a block withholding attack? 2012-10-03T09:31:00.077

3 How to get the general population to pay more in transaction fees? 2012-11-19T20:52:02.123

3 What is expected of current mining equipment 2 years from now? 2013-02-28T12:47:15.363

3 Are mining pools evenly distributed across the planet? 2013-03-12T16:58:27.290

3 How can pool operators reduce the number of orphaned blocks that they mine? 2013-03-14T22:14:42.550

3 Do miners have to start over whenever a block is found? 2013-03-31T06:54:46.253

3 Where is the incentive to update the Merkle root 2013-04-01T11:09:18.157

3 How can I make GUIMiner use the CPU for mining? 2013-04-04T14:10:52.757

3 Could miners create a cartel to raise transaction fees? 2013-04-05T21:03:20.300

3 Please explain getwork 2013-04-13T22:47:42.487

3 How to setup stratum with pushpool and VARDIFF? (litecoin) 2013-04-20T21:28:20.057

3 P2Pool latency, should I host in a datacenter or at home? 2013-05-01T00:48:19.287

3 Intermediate pool server 2013-05-18T12:21:25.727

3 Matching pushpool difficulty with stratum's 2013-05-19T15:06:06.507

3 How are mining pools authenticated to clients? 2013-06-04T16:38:19.907

3 How to 'pick' transactions to include when attempting to add a new block? 2013-08-27T12:21:43.930

3 Do pool servers communicate with bitcoind, and in what capacity? 2013-09-21T18:00:05.913

3 Why are mining pools not removing the 250 kb block size soft cap? 2013-11-14T14:57:02.963

3 Is it legal to use rented dedicated servers to mine? 2013-12-11T16:37:06.090

3 How does mining work 2013-12-14T17:24:23.010

3 What's the advantage to requesting a higher difficulty when mining? 2013-12-20T17:24:21.853

3 I don't understand the "51% attack" problem. Why does a mining pool have power with a 51% share? 2013-12-28T03:43:37.457

3 Can someone explain to me how does PPLNS mining pool profit split in lay terms? 2014-01-05T22:53:02.913

3 What are the pros and cons of P2P mining pools? 2014-01-10T00:37:07.953

3 What is a worker? 2014-01-27T23:30:54.253

3 Why does pool latency matter? 2014-01-28T20:05:20.483

3 In pooled mining, what is pdiff, bdiff and ldiff? 2014-04-06T10:18:14.633

3 Compared to Slush's pool, how exactly does Eligius payout owed bitcoins to the miners? 2014-05-29T18:31:40.630

3 Is there any difference in pool mining with gash.io over slush? 2014-06-20T13:16:39.487

3 Is this a problem that a pool found 6 consecutive blocks? 2014-11-16T06:20:20.987

3 How often do miners update their block transaction list? 2014-12-06T03:18:31.970

3 Can someone explain in detail how p2pool payout works? 2015-02-04T16:00:39.467

3 Slush's pool worker offline 2015-04-20T02:12:20.127

3 Does there exist any cryptocurrency that doesn't tend to centralization? 2015-06-11T14:20:02.067

3 How to connect to antpool? 2015-06-16T00:15:35.693

3 Should I join a pool? 2015-10-31T21:22:07.153

3 How did ghash.io fall? 2016-08-28T12:30:12.350