Unanswered Questions
78 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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What are the steps to create a block template?
My current understanding is that pool operators create block templates and pool miners solve the math to add it to the blockchain.
My question is what are the steps for a pool operator to create a ...
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Mining with multiple pools
Miners pool their hashpower together to reduce payout variance. The larger the pool, the lower the variance, which unfortunately incentivizes centralization. Today, over 50% of the total hashrate is ...
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Miner for Non-Standard Transactions
I understand that bitcoin-core introduced the IsStandard() check in v0.9(?) to prevent non-standard transactions from being broadcast (unless in a mined block).
I'm interested to know whether there ...
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Matching pushpool difficulty with stratum's
I have a new question for you.
I have setup the stratum mining proxy, and all is working fine. (Actually found our first block recently!)
However, I have pushpool running as well, and some of my ...
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Any man-in-the-middle (MITM) hashrate theft examples
One benefit of Stratum V1 to Stratum V2 is protection from man-in-the-middle (MITM) hashrate theft.
Are there any documented examples of man-in-the-middle (MITM) hashrate theft in practice ?
Like ...
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minimum hash rate of a pool to earn a reward
how much minimum hash rate of a new bitcoin pool should be to be able to compete with other pools to earn a reward?
how can I calculate that value?
any help appreciation
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Calculating Hashrate / Threads correlating to Average Block Time
Wondering if anyone can provide some detailed fact based information on how pool mining using Fixed Difficulty affects the probability of N number of shares found over T time given the variables X ...
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Can mining pool participants customize the coinbase of the block they're mining?
If a participant can customize the coinbase, how would that be done?
Pool participants make certain decisions about how they mine. Some of those decisions are apparent in each block solved by that ...
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How to calculate the minimum recommended hashrate for p2pool network?
I'm trying to add the current minimum required hashrate for miners on my p2pool frontend. I've seen such calculation for the litecoin network here.
For litecoin with quite a high p2pool rate and a ...
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Which bitcoin mining pools can be used with a Bitaxe miner?
I recently acquired a Bitaxe bitcoin miner.
Which mining pools can I configure it to be used with?
It's default pool was configured to mine to https://web.public-pool.io, but when I search on that ...
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Schedule programmatically ASIC mining
i'm looking to get into ASIC mining buying something around 1kW of power.
I have photovoltaic panels at home and during the day I have excessive power I can use to mine. I'm not set on a specific ...
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Why would users want to submit a transaction directly to a specific miner?
I am wondering why some users are interested to send their Bitcoin transactions to a specific miner? This should increase the delay because of waiting for the specific miner to win.
Are there any ...
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I need help figuring out what happened with my BFGminer overnight
I'm a newbie to crypto and was experimenting with usb erupters because I was getting into ETH mining with my rig and wanted to test it on something less risky. I ran ck pool for my USB erupter just to ...
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Stratum: How many shares should I submit per job?
I'm implementing a bitcoin CPU miner just for fun in python. I've been reading a lot about bitcoin and the protocol pools use for communication and coordinating workers but there is a key concept I ...
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Having trouble finding wallet.dat
Where is the data folder for Bitcoin-Qt?
Windows:
%APPDATA%\Bitcoin
(This defaults to C:\Documents and Settings\YourUserName\Application data\Bitcoin on Windows XP and to C:\Users\YourUserName\...
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