Difference between revisions of "Slush Pool"
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|foundation=November 27, 2010<ref name="thread">[http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=1976.0 Cooperative mining (join us!)]</ref> | |foundation=November 27, 2010<ref name="thread">[http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=1976.0 Cooperative mining (join us!)]</ref> | ||
|owner=[[User:Slush|Slush]] | |owner=[[User:Slush|Slush]] | ||
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|website=https://mining.bitcoin.cz/ | |website=https://mining.bitcoin.cz/ | ||
| − | }}'''Bitcoin Pooled Mining''' (BPM), better known as '''Slush's pool''', is the oldest [[Pooled mining|mining pool]], and the first known to be publicly available. Slush's pool was announced on November, 27, 2010 under the name Bitcoin Pooled Mining Server<ref name="thread"/> and operated on a share strategy that involved an artificially low [[difficulty]] method that has since been determined to be vulnerable to cheating. The pool now follows a score-based method, where older shares (from beginning of the round) have a lower value than newer shares, which serves to demotivate a cheater from switching between pools inside a round. Balances accumulate on the server, and are sent out when a user-set threshold balance is reached. There is a fixed fee of 2%, as of March 10, 2011<ref>[https://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=1976.msg63615#msg63615 Cooperative mining (update 2011-03-10)]</ref>. | + | |bottom={{subbox miner |
| + | |outset=November 27, 2010 | ||
| + | |firstblock=December 16, 2010 | ||
| + | |hashrate=12.7 PHash/s<ref>[https://mining.bitcoin.cz/stats/ Slush's Pool Statistics]</ref> | ||
| + | |peak=12.8 PHash/s | ||
| + | |peakdate=April 4, 2015 | ||
| + | }}}}'''Bitcoin Pooled Mining''' (BPM), better known as '''Slush's pool''', is the oldest [[Pooled mining|mining pool]], and the first known to be publicly available. Slush's pool was announced on November, 27, 2010 under the name Bitcoin Pooled Mining Server<ref name="thread"/> and operated on a share strategy that involved an artificially low [[difficulty]] method that has since been determined to be vulnerable to cheating. The pool now follows a score-based method, where older shares (from beginning of the round) have a lower value than newer shares, which serves to demotivate a cheater from switching between pools inside a round. Balances accumulate on the server, and are sent out when a user-set threshold balance is reached. There is a fixed fee of 2%, as of March 10, 2011<ref>[https://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=1976.msg63615#msg63615 Cooperative mining (update 2011-03-10)]</ref>. | ||
The [[coinbase]] signature for this pool is: "/slush/" <ref>[https://blockchain.info/tx/8e058f90d3f287cd25a178b4396ed362bf90ee82b2f19aaf66f56424819f3d82 Example of decoded coinbase]</ref>. | The [[coinbase]] signature for this pool is: "/slush/" <ref>[https://blockchain.info/tx/8e058f90d3f287cd25a178b4396ed362bf90ee82b2f19aaf66f56424819f3d82 Example of decoded coinbase]</ref>. | ||
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Revision as of 22:57, 4 April 2015
Bitcoin Pooled Mining
| Trading name | Slush's pool |
| Industry | Mining pool |
| Founded | November 27, 2010[1] |
| Key people | Slush |
| Website | https://mining.bitcoin.cz/ |
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The coinbase signature for this pool is: "/slush/" [4].
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