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Stratum v2 is great, but I wonder if it really makes any sense to operate a pool as a company in the US (like Ocean) and expect that you will avoid attack from the authorities (wrt kyc and censorship). Custody arguments will probably not convince the thugs.

I've always found the concept of pools a bit bewildering - shares are cool in a non adversarial environment but 'block withholding attacks' - is it really an attack if your house is made out of paper, and the wind picks up?

If you solve that attack, there will be 10 others.

Easy for me to wisecrack but tbh i don't have solutions.
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Matt Corallo 2y ago

Someone needs to rebuild p2pool but with faster blocks and tradable shares…that’s the real solution but it’s a ton of work.

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average_bitcoiner 2y ago

Where would one find this?

Could this be done as a Fedimint module?

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Matt Corallo 2y ago

Doing it as a fedimint module adds no value.

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average_bitcoiner 2y ago

see that now that I understand what p2pool is. Just trying to noodle around the miners running a single S9 that trickle in sats/shares but don't have meaningful impact otherwise. I suppose it's more of a question of how can we make dust UTXOs useful or usable?