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:  Notes and website Follow me on Twitter @stephanlivera Subscribe to the podcast Patreon @stephanlivera