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It sounds like with DATUM there is no excuse to not make your own blocks now or rely on someone else to. And I agree, I feel mining and node running go hand-in-hand at this point. Obviously the lotto mining is a tough sell, that's where OCEAN comes in. It's all coming together. In the future it may be common for Nodes and miners to come packaged together. And then I'd love to see a way to plug in renewable energy tech to these devices. A bitaxe branded solar panel or hydro/wind turbine perhaps. 🤔 Maybe I'm thinking too far ahead
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Dikaios1517 9mo ago

You're not thinking too far ahead: https://www.solosatoshi.com/product/solarbit/

There are currently only three reasons not to generate block templates yourself:

1. You don't run your own node and don't want to start.

2. You don't like OCEAN for some reason, such as preferring FPPS payouts rather than only getting paid when the pool finds a block.

3. You don't want to run Knots as your Bitcoin node implementation.

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Like Ice Cream 9mo ago

Woah, that is cool. I had not seen this yet. Man things are moving fast.

Knots makes sense to me and I had never really considered that seeing as Bitcoin core was the more common option.. but the deeper I dig the more I understand why. Competition is good, having choices is important, values and incentives need to align as we all hunt for the truth.