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

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Scale Ability

Parvell: It's theoretically possible that, you know, some say, laurentipl has 20 miners on there, and those 20 miners could collectively account for forty % of the hash rate. And so let's talk a little bit about the scale ability aspects. Parfell: There is one aspect which is prety technical, and it is, you as a pool. You're sending the coin base to every single miner whenever youre updating the job being mined on. But for optimizing your block value, fools typically send new jobs to miners once in a minute or 30 seconds. So putting a lot of outputs this way, if it's bigger than reasonable, then it's just a pure

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