rich1.0npub1kf0ppcjaguxekg24yx6smgxlu73qn0k8lm0t2wrqc0scpl7u3sgsmf3f58https://nostr.ae/npub1kf0ppcjaguxekg24yx6smgxlu73qn0k8lm0t2wrqc0scpl7u3sgsmf3f58njumphttps://nostr.ae📅 Original date posted:2013-06-04 📝 Original message:On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Roy Badami <roy at gnomon.org.uk> wrote: >> Sure they are paying themselves, but given bitcoin network >> difficulty is uso high, simply obtaining payments-go-myself-as-miner >> transactions is itself difficult. > > Not for pool operators it isn't. Nor for people buying hashing power > from a GPUMAX-type service, if such services still exist (or should > they exist again in future). Re-read what I wrote. That's perfectly OK. It is analogous to a pool operator receiving merged mined coins, each time they mine a bitcoin block. If you achieve the very high difficulty needed to create a valid bitcoin block, you have achieved a very high bar. -- Jeff Garzik Senior Software Engineer and open source evangelist BitPay, Inc. https://bitpay.com/