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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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The Block Distribution Problem Is a Good Idea

In the ideal world when everybody would use a transaction selection and we two, then the block distribution would be the same as if everybody is solomining. I cannot imagine beingn better. If somebody has a huge data centre full of asics and he solomines, then obviously he would have larger influence on what blocks will be mined. It's pretty direct. There's no way around that. And nobody wants to change it, i think, because it's just your right to choose whatever you want to a mine on. So getting a sort of flat fee for your hash looks, in my opinion, good on paper. But again, over timem all block rewards should really even

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