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}}}}'''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>. | }}}}'''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>. | ||
Revision as of 02:13, 16 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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