WTF... Network hashrate 3.28 GH/s, i found only two pools, one with around 5.45 MH/s the second with around 2.25 MH/s... someone is solo mining really hard or there is other bigger pools?
It's a mix of a few big solo miners and some private pools. I still solo mine at home on 5 machines, for example - I get a block every other day or so. You don't have to be huge to solo BBR still.
Not sure if it's still happening, but for a while, some of the big EC2 miners would run their own pool inside EC2 to keep the bandwidth charges down and latency low.
If you've got more than about 1-2MH/s, I'd solo, but that's just me.
I'm kind of new to the BBR business, but I get suspicious when I see this tremendously skewed distribution of mining power.
Given that cpuminer comes (roughly) with the same hash power as the XMR miner (in the 100-600 kilohash range on standard quad-cores), a total network power of 3.71 GH/s seems really odd to me. How is that even possible without gpu miners? Ok, it's probably not possible without them.. so we have some gpu barons out there. That's fine, the coin evolves. But even then, a network power in the gigahash(!) range is hardly explained by cpu+gpu miners. So, I suspect either (big!) botnets or fpgas in the game. From the technical point of view, the latter would be great for BBR. From a practical point of view, both alternatives are bad, as it means that very few miners are actually generating most of the coins -- and thus, are in almost perfectly control of distribution and price.
Am I mistaken here, or do we have a seruious problem with BBR and the miners here?
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