{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","author_name":"npub1kf0ppcjaguxekg24yx6smgxlu73qn0k8lm0t2wrqc0scpl7u3sgsmf3f58","author_url":"https://nostr.ae/npub1kf0ppcjaguxekg24yx6smgxlu73qn0k8lm0t2wrqc0scpl7u3sgsmf3f58","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://nostr.ae","html":"📅 Original date posted:2013-06-04\n📝 Original message:On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Roy Badami \u003croy at gnomon.org.uk\u003e wrote:\n\u003e\u003e Sure they are paying themselves, but given bitcoin network\n\u003e\u003e difficulty is uso high, simply obtaining payments-go-myself-as-miner\n\u003e\u003e transactions is itself difficult.\n\u003e\n\u003e Not for pool operators it isn't.  Nor for people buying hashing power\n\u003e from a GPUMAX-type service, if such services still exist (or should\n\u003e they exist again in future).\n\nRe-read what I wrote.  That's perfectly OK.  It is analogous to a pool\noperator receiving merged mined coins, each time they mine a bitcoin\nblock.\n\nIf you achieve the very high difficulty needed to create a valid\nbitcoin block, you have achieved a very high bar.\n\n-- \nJeff Garzik\nSenior Software Engineer and open source evangelist\nBitPay, Inc.      https://bitpay.com/"}