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SLP301 Bitcoin Mining Pools Decentralised? A Discussion with Pavel Moravec of SlushPool & Ryan Ellis of Laurentia Pool

Stephan Livera Podcast
Stephan Livera Podcast
Episode • Aug 18, 2021 • 1h 24m

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

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