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"Lucky pool" is confirmation bias + SHA-256d doing exactly what it's designed to do. Rebooting won't help either.
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Calling our contest October contest winner! If you are one of these three wallet owners, please DM @altair_tech or me here on X to claim your Hammer BC04 prize. Only 11 hours left... you never know, 50T can be beaten! In November, we will run the same Best Share contest with a Heatbit Air Purifier as the prize.
A big milestone for AtlasPool. Our first four endpoints — Ashburn, Portland, Frankfurt, and Hong Kong — are now running our newest build, and the early results on https://t.co/vEKnO8ig3p are incredibly promising. Over the past 24 hours AtlasPool has won roughly 4 out of 5 block notification races against 25+ monitored pools.
This build is the culmination of a lot of research and hard work chasing one goal: the most performant Bitcoin pool available to miners. Without going too deep into the weeds, it pairs the latest Bitcoin Core and ckpool with our own self-built tooling to squeeze out every last drop of performance, all running on blazing-fast AWS Graviton EC2 instances placed in some of the most interconnected locations in the world.
It's been a real learning journey, and I'd be remiss not to thank a few people who helped along the way:
@ProofOfMike — whose idea and early work measuring block notification speed eventually grew into https://t.co/vEKnO8ig3p, and who's been a great sounding board for ways to improve the pool.
@philip_dath — who has worked with me on a range of performance improvements across both the node and the stratum server. We're still at it today, and I really appreciate his expertise and his friendly attitude.
Aviral at @Altair_tech — who understood AtlasPool from our very first conversation, and has supported the pool with important introductions, giveaways, and no shortage of encouraging words.
@mutatrum — a longtime friend of the pool and a valuable technical sounding board, who helped pin down a few bugs. An all-around good dude.
@WantClue — First person to interview me for a podcast and also added AtlasPool to the BitForge Nano firmware. And last but not least,
Con Kolivas (CK) — whose awesome stratum server implementation is the bedrock of AtlasPool.
A huge thank-you as well to our AtlasPool Discord crew, who keep the pool going with hashing, humor, and expertise: metaprinter (our first moderator, GZR, Travetown, RBX (first Aussie on the pool!), Beckels, Happy Day, Jeebz, BlackHole, proandres6 (biggest share so far at 66T), Mr. KV3 (we miss you!), Blockdyor (who wrote the first AtlasPool review), and many more.
And a thank-you to DTV Electronics and the South African Bitcoin community for the sponsorship that helps power our London and Cape Town endpoints. If anyone else out there would be interested in sponsoring an endpoint, I'd love to hear from you.
I'll be honest: it's a little disappointing that after nearly a year of operation AtlasPool hasn't found a block yet. But every one of these improvements shortens the odds, and I believe that moment is coming soon. Until then, I'll keep building and operating the most performant and reliable Bitcoin pool I can.
Onward. 🧡
Fair enough... revenue is what pays the bills. Here's an idea for original research and a benefit to your audience... do a side-by-side comparison of PowerPool vs NiceHash, and Neopool vs Antpool. It’s low-effort original data, and it gives your audience a concrete number instead of marketing claims. If the proxies still win on net revenue after the extra hop, that’s useful information too. Or perhaps PowerPool and Neopool are taking more fees than they advertise? Either way, the wallets decide and your audience benefits.
Not hurt. I'm just pointing out a basic issue with the test design. Two of the pools in your comparison have public claims on their sites that don’t match the templates they serve:
PowerPool advertises proprietary local stratum tech and superior hourly payouts vs NiceHash, while serving upstream templates (most often with NiceHash/OCEAN tags) and settling through an exchange.
Nexuspool claims it “independently signs blocks” on its own infrastructure, yet the coinbase scriptSig in the work it sends is AntPool’s, along with AntPool’s wallet.
If a pool is simply a front-end proxying hashrate and templates to someone else, then measuring its fee and payout speed isn’t really testing that pool... it’s testing the upstream, minus an extra cut.
You’re putting your name on a comparison that includes operators whose own FAQ language is contradicted by the blocks their miners are actually hashing on. Worth verifying the templates before the next round.
@nonhelix Yes, all measurements come from four collectors deplore worldwide: Ashburn, Portland, Singapore, Frankfurt. You can filter by collector on the site.
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@MysterionMacro Yes. The median is the middle value amongst samples. The middle race shows AtlasPool winning, which means 0 ms. Agree that this is confusing. Will look into this
🏆 A NerdOctaxe just found at 50.5T best share. This is the new leader in our monthly contest and also the third best share on the pool ever. Tough to beat, but still four days left! If you are wallet owner ..pKft, DM me for prize info.
🏆 We have a new contest leader! A Canaan Avalon Q just posted a 9.8484 T share — the biggest of the month so far. Bonus flex: it missed the all-time top 10 by just 0.0019 T (~1.9 G). So close. 😮💨 Could this be our winner? Plenty of month left. ⛏️💎