BTC.com Launches New, Open Source Mining Pool
BTC.com has launched a new, open source bitcoin mining pool. Out of the gate, the pool seems to have some advantages in the pool sector of the mining industry. They have iOS and Android apps ready from launch, but the highlight is the efficient system underneath the platform. The New BTC.com Mining Pool. The mining pool’s software monitors other pools and blocks in real time, allowing miners to quickly move to a new block when one gets solved by another pool. This extra efficiency should result in solving more blocks overall from the pool’s hash power. BTC.com’s large distribution of nodes....
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