Quote from: DannyHamilton on December 21, 2017, 05:44:55 PM

Quote from: does on December 21, 2017, 05:19:45 PM

hey ya all,

so heres my question. (i am sure tons of ppl had the same question)

for the example i have 1 miner or 10 or a farm of 100-200.
can i decide which block to mine ?
lets say i did a transaction and right now its in the unconfirmed pool. (for 3 days now)
can i with my miner(s) pick it up and confirmed it?

if yes how?
if no why not? (please alaborate for a non-technical person so every1 could understand the answer)

thanks.

It depends.

If you are solo mining (not mining in a mining pool), then YES, you have control over the transactions in your block.

If you are mining in a mining pool, then the pool will have control over the transactions in your block.

Note that this also means:

If you operate your own mining pool, and don't do any mining yourself (just rely on the participants in your pool to do the mining for you), then you will have control over the transactions in the blocks that ALL your pool participants work on.

I wish to conclude one thing about this that whether mining solo or having a mining pool where others work for us with their computational power, what exact type of control over transactions do we have? I mean do we have the control to decide the fee/byte we want in order to be included in the block that we may (probably) find? If yes, is it like a slab that we need to choose to include the given sats/byte transactions included only?