Quote from: jbrogan on March 01, 2023, 10:47:15 PM

Quote from: mikeywith on March 01, 2023, 10:40:39 PM

Quote from: jbrogan on February 17, 2023, 04:05:21 AM

Not that this is happening anywhere, but i have always been curious if a pool could change the miners BTC address when a block is found. So the reward goes somewhere other than to the miner that found it.

Mainly curious if this =could= be done and if yes, how could I spot it happening. It may be impossible but I wanted to know.

Thanks

Mining pools don't pay to the miner's address directly, the rewards go to the pool's address and then it's distributed from there, even for solo mining pools where one miner gets the whole block, the rewards still have to go to the pool's address, and then sent to the miner after keeping the pool fees, the question is whether the miners can replace the pool's bitcoin address with their own address, and the answer above is pretty accurate, it's just "impossible".

Thanks - that's good to know.

well in the case of mmpool.org they claim they never got their last block

check thread.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=559011.0

this is one of many small pool dangers that can happen.