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Re: A solo Bitcoin miner just won block 718214 reward worth 6.25 $BTC
by
DannyHamilton
on 17/01/2022, 18:27:51 UTC
⭐ Merited by fillippone (3)
He's got some facts wrong

yes please correct me

Happy to do so.

COINBASE (Newly generated coins)        1PKN98VN2z5gwSGZvGKS2bj8aADZBkyhkZ  6.26810839 BTC
                                                           OP_RETURN ?x?x?x?x?x?x?x?x?x                  0.00000000 BTC
                                                           OP_RETURN ?x?x?x?x?x?x?x?x?x                  0.00000000 BTC

in pools that pay out to a pool owner only(later shared). their 'variance' in this example is instead of using a asics address as one output they use a random op return per asic(like an asic ID, unique to each asic). and then another op return as a an extra-extra-nonce to give that asic more work every few seconds


I'm not aware of a single pool that uses OP_RETURN in this way, and I can't think of any reason that they would. It would be inefficient to use OP_RETURN in this way when they can (and do) just use the input section of the transaction for extranonce.