Network Visibility Product Incorporates Bitcoin Pooled Mining Detection

In this part we will talk about "pooled mining" and compare the different approaches.With increasing block generation difficulty, mining essentially becomes a lottery, as it may take years before an individual node manages to create . To provide a more smooth incentive to lower-performance miners, several pooled miners have been created. With a mining pool, a lot of different people contribute to generating a block, and the reward is then split among them according to their processing contribution. This way, instead of waiting for years to generate 50btc in a block, a smaller miner may get....

Bitcoin is designed as a peer-to-peer network, where nodes randomly connect to other nodes. Transactions and blocks are transmitted over this network by these nodes, until each has received all. This works quite well, as the distributed model makes Bitcoin relatively censorship-resistant; there is no central point of control to shut down or pressure into compliance. But it also has a significant downside: The peer-to-peer network is relatively slow. As such, miners (and pools) sometimes waste hash power mining on top of an old block while a newer block is finding its way through the....

Bitcoin is designed as a peer-to-peer network, where nodes randomly connect to other nodes. Transactions and blocks are transmitted over this network by these nodes, until each has received all. This works quite well, as the distributed model makes Bitcoin relatively censorship-resistant; there is no central point of control to shut down or pressure into compliance. But it also has a significant downside: The peer-to-peer network is relatively slow. As such, miners (and pools) sometimes waste hash power mining on top of an old block while a newer block is finding its way through the....

Cryptocurrency mining has come a long way since Satoshi Nakamoto mined those very first Bitcoins using only CPU cycles. Background. The harnessing of graphic card GPUs pushed mining rates to Gigahashes per second, and recently, the development of ASICs made Terahash rates possible. Many miners either fell out of the race or were forced to form pools - combining their hashing power in order to mine profitably. So began the era of the mining pools, behind whose power to make or break small altcoins, lay a greater threat: the 51% Attack. More on that later. The sheer hashing difficulty and....

Slush’s Pool was introduced in late 2010 and was the brainchild of Marek Palatinus who saw a need for pooled mining resources to be able to keep more people mining Bitcoin. He developed the Stratum style of mining to help miners receive payouts in a landscape of escalating mining power. The development of Slush’s Pool brought with it a new era of Bitcoin mining and changed forever the way we mine Bitcoin and many other Cryptocurrencies. Marek’s words about how he came up with pooled mining are quite fitting. Now on November 17th Satoshi Labs announced the new Beta for Slush’s Pool. Slush’s....