IT IS EVEN WORSE THAN THE CHART MAKES IT SEEM SINCE ANTPOOL, VIABTC, F2POOL, BINANCE, BRAIINS, AND SECPOOL ARE ALL USING THE SAME CUSTODIAN AND BLOCK TEMPLATE PROVIDER.
BASICALLY ONE BIG CHINESE POOL AT ~47% HASH.
Who is their provider
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/bitmain-antpool-pool-of-pools-report/
From my understanding, bitmain historically has been malicious. They should be crushed.
Silly that antpool is as big as it is.
They've been playing both sides of the blocksize war. Doing things like this to make money off of mining pools, selling the miners themselves, and pushing for bcash.
Bitmain manufactures the best miners in business, good luck crushing that
YES this has been going on for a while time to shout this @ODELL we gotta do something
Precisely. Quit whining about some jpegs, this is a far bigger issue.
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Why doesnt everyone adopt Stratum V2?
What can we do about it?
Buy and run a miner?
With ocean pool?
Solo mining or ocean or send the hashes to the smaller pools.
But will it make any difference?
Not really, if you solo-mine, it's too much headache to create the infrastructure and cooling system for your miner, and you'd be mining in one of these pools anyway. And lose money on a depreciating machine before gaining any meaningful amount of btc. Some mining companies have hundreds if not thousands of rigs and yours will be a pass in the sea
I can only hope that each super power in the world competes for the dominance over the Bitcoin blockchain. At least the people will then get cheap energy and a deflationary currency.
But to accomplish this we have to orange pill our ruling minority or replace them with a orange pilled ruling minority.
I talk about this scenario since 2021. As a technocrat I'ld try the following:
1. Bait the miners with cheap energy into my free trade zone.
2. Try to put my friends into the board of directors of the companies I cannot lure into my country.
3. Try to install sleepers in companies abroad.
4. Wait
5. In an swift and organized efford: Seize the miners from my free trade zone and sabotage the companies abroad.
6. Your blockchain now belongs to me. No Inscriptions, Runes and other BS anymore.
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So the cold war between the US and China is actually playing out as a hash war?
Softwar
Didn’t someone write a book about that?
Btc.com seemingly is SECPOOL too
no onchain privacy, wasabi and samourai gone, lightning does not scale and self custodial LN is a pain in the ass still, ecash mints allow to break the 21m cap - the state of bitcoin is pretty terrible, sadly.
It's impossible to break the 21M cap on the base chain. Even if it was on one of the L2s, it would mean that some of the money wouldn't make it back to the base chain.
that is true, but it will not matter to the users who get rug pulled by the next ugly nerd SBF like crew which runs the mint, sells unbacked tokens to their users for real bitcoin and then do an exit scam. It is beyond retarded to create a system which allows that, it is the most anti bitcoin thing i can imagine.
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