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Great discussion of empty blocks and general pool structure with the guys from OCEAN. TL;DR it's about bandwidth and latency, and it's a MINER problem, not a pool problem, and having a node/pool proxy on site can reduce empty blocks. youtube.com/watch?v=4Bkyhd…

Braidpool will be able to not mine empty blocks. It comes down to how fast you can distribute new work to your hashing devices. Having a node or proxy on site is the answer Prepare for Braidpool by installing a proxy on site instead of having every miner connect to the pool

"Heat is a product, not a problem". We could be doing much more economically creative things with Bitcoin mining. Now let's talk about something he didn't fully explain: the organic Rankine Cycle. (1/2)

EP49: Exploring braidpool: Innovations in Decentralized Bitcoin Mining with special guest Bob McElrath Catch this and all our episodes at: pod256.org/episodepage/ex…

Some of the work going on for braidpool : x.com/jungly/status/…

bitcoinmagazine.com/print/running-… Nice Braidpool mention here. And lots of things to think about.

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If anyone is in Nashville and wants to talk about braidpool, DM me I'm around.

I've been working on a new testnet for bitcoin called CPUNet that is intended to be CPU-mined, for braidpool testing and development. If you want to contribute, see this README and the TODO therein: github.com/braidpool/bitc…

It's hard to believe this was written in 2011. Some highlights relevant to Braidpool: Sec 2 Proportional reward system Sec 7.1 Shares as a future payment contract Sec 7.5 Variable difficulty shares Sec 6.1 Pool-hopping (also Appendix B) Meni Rosenfeld arxiv.org/abs/1112.4980

I feel like Spy Mining is one of the big differentiators of Bitcoin MEV vs PoS chain MEV and the game theory for it goes extremely deep and cross-domain.

Our testnet, CPUNet got a mention here. Only 2 nodes! We could use a few more nodes!

x.com/BTCtoOblivion/…

I'm sure some Braidpool discussion will happen here. x.com/JBeddict/statu…