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Hmmm.
Well both F2pool and Braiins use Antpools block template. But you should be able to configure it yourself to any pool you please.
50 sats \ 6 replies \ @optimism 19h
Are you sure that f2pool uses antpool's template? Got any evidence?
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151 sats \ 4 replies \ @optimism 13h
That literally says that it makes their own templates?
Yet, the F2Pool templates show no similarity to any of the other pools. However, it is known that F2Pool runs its own nodes and builds its own block templates. It’s expected that F2Pool templates don’t match with, for example, AntPools templates.
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200 sats \ 3 replies \ @OT 12h
Hmmm. Looks like you're right. For some reason I always thought they were part of the proxy. Thanks for pointing that out.
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173 sats \ 2 replies \ @optimism 11h
Knowing all 3 major Chinese pool COOs (and others) personally, it's become kind of a pet peeve of mine when I see people group f2pool, antpool and/or viabtc in the same "container" even though there is no direct evidence. From what I gather talking to these people (I don't claim to know every deal they make - am not an insider) they are competitors, but of course they're not enemies.
The closest evidence I've seen of collaboration is when mono found coinbases for f2pool and antpool/binance going to the same target wallet (that looked to be a FPPS insurer, not sure what ever came of that investigation to be honest.) Maybe in the near future when I feel like traveling again I'll ask f2f to at least try to understand what happened there from their perspective.
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150 sats \ 1 reply \ @OT 11h
Yeah right.
I did see people conflate ViaBTC but for some reason I always thought F2pool was part of that group.
IMO this is good news as it means Antpools friends are all smaller pools so they aren't anywhere near 50% of total hash rate.
71 sats \ 1 reply \ @jasonb OP 21h
Yeah, I was just curious if they run their own pool the way Bitmain does, but I guess it would make sense that if they’re slinging other folks’ pools, they must not.
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150 sats \ 0 replies \ @OT 21h
Not if their default is F2pool.
Running a pool is a different business model to making hardware
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