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SLP301 Bitcoin Mining Pools Decentralised? A Discussion with Pavel Moravec of SlushPool & Ryan Ellis of Laurentia Pool

Stephan Livera Podcast

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Should Mining Pulls Be Further Decentralized?

There's been some discussion about this idea of should mining pulls, and should mining in general be further decentralized. So perhaps we could start a little bit of how we got here. Maybe parvell, you could helpd us explain why did mining pulls even start in the first place? Why is that even a thing? Tis pretty, pretty easy idea, right? If you're trying to mind bit coin, your chance of doing so successfull is pretty low if you don't have a large enough share in the whole hsrate market, let's say. The pool solves the problem of you not getting rewards frequently enough,. basically spreading variance andnd, helping you get money very often

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