Quote from: LoneRangir on June 11, 2018, 03:50:25 AM

Quote from: -ck on June 11, 2018, 03:44:24 AM

Quote from: LoneRangir on June 11, 2018, 03:33:34 AM

What is the mining pool sentiment of replacing stratum with this 'BetterHash' proposal by Matt Corallo?

If I understand it correctly, it will decouple pool selection and block construction.

I haven't chimed in on this publicly because I think people would be disappointed by my response and criticise me for being negative. It's a great idea, but will be a complete failure in the real world I'm afraid. Even if I write the reference client and server software to use the protocol, no mining hardware out there and virtually no pool will be using it, thanks to Bitmain's hardware and pool dominance. I've had this discussion with Matt but he's more hopeful than me; otherwise he wouldn't have gone to the effort of formalising his proposal. I'd be happy to be proven wrong on this...

All the news stories I've read are glowingly positive that this is a good idea, which I agree it is. However, nobody bothered to ask a miner/ pool operator.

And therein lies the problem... Since I wrote the reference mining software and many drivers, and wrote pool software and have administrated on 4 pools over the years... I'm a realist.