The news illustrates just how far cryptocurrency mining has come from the days when it was accessible to hobbyists and small -
scale mining pools.
Not exact matches
Yang is an operator of one of the newer
mining pools, but has already generated complaints for his favored stance - that SegWit has little to do with
scaling and that all the main devs should be fired.
Since then, there's been no shortage of drama -
mining firm Bitmain was accused of blocking SegWit in order to boost its revenue; major bitcoin companies and
mining pools united behind their own
scaling plan; and finally, unhappy with the plan, users equipped with GIFs and branded hats responded with a kind of revolt.
So far, it seems Satoshi's original
scaling proposal actually increases the power
mining pools have in deciding the future of the network.
But if one, relatively new bitcoin
mining pool has its way, a much anticipated
scaling solution could be dead on arrival.
Some notable active participants included: Adam Back (BlockStream), Luke - Jr (Bitcoin Core team), Blockchain.Info, BitMain, Ledge Marco (Genesis
mining), Marshall Long (Classic), Gavin Andersen (Classic), Pindar Wong (
Scaling Bitcoin), Henry Brade (Prasos), investor Roger Ver, Kang Xie as a representative of the Chinese bitcoin
mining pools, and many others.
It's possible that even
mining pools that are ideologically opposed to bitcoin cash and its
scaling goals might do so for the profit.
Uncertainty remained even after SegWit2x [the
scaling proposal based on the New York Agreement, and backed by a number of Bitcoin companies and
mining pools] was released.
To fund its
mining container development and
pool service launch and meet global -
scale ambitions, CMJ aims to hold its ICO from December 2017 to January 2018.
In contrast, previous decentralized Bitcoin
pools have a scalability bottleneck at even 1 % of the Bitcoin
mining scale.
A majority of major
mining pools have pledged to trigger Segwit2x with their combined computing power by the end of this month, activating a long - awaited (though contentious) code change known as Segregated Witness (SegWit) that's been at the center of bitcoin's
scaling debate.
Mining pools serve a crucial yet relatively mundane role in the mining process by providing a focal point for hashing power and enabling small - scale miners to collaborate with o
Mining pools serve a crucial yet relatively mundane role in the
mining process by providing a focal point for hashing power and enabling small - scale miners to collaborate with o
mining process by providing a focal point for hashing power and enabling small -
scale miners to collaborate with others.
ViaBTC's latest blog post sheds some light on why the
mining pool is opposing the Bitcoin
scaling proposal, SegWit.
Antpool, the biggest
mining pool in the Bitcoin ecosystem with over 14 % of the global hashrate, has
mined its first SegWit2x block today, signaling approval for the ambitious
scaling agreement that seeks to implement the SegWit soft fork and a subsequent hard fork to increase block size capacity to 2 MB.
Furthermore, a boost to the bitcoin exchange rate was given by the information that main
mining pools have accepted the Segregated Witness, a network
scaling method.