When is a Pool not a Pool?
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Five days ago after a BN Live Stream I posted this.
Having watched the latest BN Live stream they were very heavy on Miners going Solo.
Now we have all learnt to never to take things from BN at face value, so what are peoples thoughts on the real reason behind the pressure they are applying for Solo mining?
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"Pools go against the grain of Decentralisation"
"If you have greater than 50TB go Solo"so I thought let's have a look at how many blocks O.G. Burst Gadget with it's additional capacity is hitting these Days. I can't find what the additional capacity was but seem to remember it was at least another 100TB so total is at least 313TB. I have to say it seemed a bit low with 15 blocks in the last 5 Days?
Anyway I digress...... After the bashing they gave Pools for larger miners I of course expected to find O.G. Burst Gadget to be mining Solo, but what do I find?
FleX Pool Main - Private Pool - by Invitation Only
With the following miners assigned to it.
O.G BURST GADGET
O.G. Gogo Gadget Burst Miner 2
FLeX by Focus - Miner 1
FLeX by Focus - Miner 2
FLeX by Focus - Miner 3
FLeX by Focus - Miner 4Rich
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just looks like a pool of retards to me
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@Lexicon said in When is a Pool not a Pool?:
just looks like a pool of retards to me
Gotta reply since its outta the bag now
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@RichBC IMO solo mining is overall good for network and in long time it should be even more beneficial then mining in pool as you don't have to pay pool-fee. Although if network will ever be huge (like 5000PB) then it could take ages to hit a block thus we would need to switch back for pools^^
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@manfromafar said in When is a Pool not a Pool?:
Gotta reply since its outta the bag now
Implies that you know something about this?
Rich
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@RichBC Fascinating... How many TB have they got in their private pool?
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@Propagandalf I would guess about 650TB and with the expansion to OG Burst I would guess they could hit 1PB in a few weeks time?
Rich
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@RichBC the og burst 2 one is the 100tb miner they had from lex4all lol. i know that much..
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@Lexicon Yes I had guessed as much. in practice nothing wrong with managing their miners on a Pool, it's just that with BN I always look for the hidden agenda, so still not quite sure why they had this big bashing of Pools before making the move?
Rich
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@RichBC i have a feeling they are doing this because they no longer have ninja which was 51% of the network. it also probably displeased them that my pool was above theirs. as they no longer have network dominance.
i know they spoke to a few of my miners to try and convince them to move over to their pool.
just more petty games i reckon
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@Lexicon Yes my initial reaction was that it was due to the loss of ninja, sometimes the answer is the obvious one.
So I guess this was a two pronged attack on their part. Tell Big Miners that they should be going Solo to reduce the size of other pools, while enticing miners to their Pool and setting up a private one.
So @tross what do you think of this? Like I said to you in the chat, don't worry about ccminer, worry about what BN are doing.
Rich
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@RichBC humm ... i think i called this one about a week ago wile in PM's with you LMAO
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@Gibsalot Yes you did :-)
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Rich need to worry about both lol. What I think is this ddos will undermine Burstcoin. Could also tie in with BN wanting people going solo who knows. This is the second time my pool got hit when it was doing good. I have a pool that excepts most miner shares just like lexicon. But others are scared of server performance. Why am I not concerned because if you setup stuff right there are no concerns. Plus if your running Lexicon code you know what you have under the hood!
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My theory:
With the Bitsler Casino integration happening there are going to be a ton more transactions on the network. If the pools are being DOS'd the Solo miners are going to be the ones who carry the load.
When Burst is integrated there is the possibility of thousands of new users. If the pools start getting Dos'd there is not enough solo miners right now to carry all of the new users. The new users will get frustrated and stop using Burst.
Thats what I think the agenda is.
Not sure why they are not solo mining themselves.
I could be completely wrong, but this is what I had come up with while stewing on the motives.



