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Re: BITMAIN announces Antpool
by
TracerX
on 07/11/2015, 05:07:33 UTC
the bad thing is that this pool is one of the pools that is contributing to the slowness of confirmations by mining empty blocks with bad code..


Precisely. It's a little amusing to see miners who support a pool that doesn't contribute to the network complain about how long transactions take  Cheesy

I was having this same conversation with someone on Reddit earlier this week.  Pool _choose_ to submit empty block, am I wrong?  Bitfury has not posted a single empty block in the last week, while Antpool has posted ... 21 total empty blocks last week.  BitFury and Antpool averaged 22 and 28 blocks last week, respectively.

Am I wrong to conclude that the pools have a choice in the matter?