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SLP301 Bitcoin Mining Pools Decentralised? A Discussion with Pavel Moravec of SlushPool & Ryan Ellis of Laurentia Pool
Season 1
Episode 301
Published 4 years, 10 months ago
Description
How should Bitcoin mining be structured? Pavel Moravec of SlushPool (Braiins) and Ryan Ellis of Laurentia Pool join me to chat. We discuss:
- Why pools exist
- How to structure mining pools
- Trade offs around decentralisation of pools
- Coinbase payouts vs other ways
- Lightning payouts
- Scalability for mining pools
- Stratum v2
Links:
- Pavel Moravec: @mor_pav
- Braiins Twitter: @braiins_systems
- Braiins site: Braiins.com | Bitcoin Mining Company
- Laurentia Pool Twitter: @laurentiapool
- Site: LaurentiaPool.org
- Laurentia pool post: Laurentia Pool: Pooled “Decentralization”
- Braiins twitter thread on decentralisation: https://twitter.com/braiins_systems/status/1423291322128011264
Sponsors:
- Hodl Hodl Lend
- Compass Mining
- Unchained Capital (code LIVERA)
- CypherSafe (code LIVERA)
- CoinKite.com (code LIVERA)
Stephan Livera links: