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Re: Can a pool track an ASIC miner ?
by
mikeywith
on 18/07/2021, 16:11:08 UTC
Using OEM firmware - no.

This does make sense, but we don't know for certain, because even OEM firmware is closed source, and we know for certain that every miner has its own unique serial number which the firmware detects, so there is a possibility that the miner's ID could be leaked to the pool in one way or the other, it's very unlikely that the pool will request it, and even if it did, we still don't know if the miner will pass such info to the pool, but as long as we don't know the code for the firmware, everything is still possible.

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Any particular reason you are asking these security-related questions?

To be honest, most of his questions are rather weird, but I find some of them interesting, I have been mining for years and have never thought of such things. Grin