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Re: [ANN] solo.ckpool.org 0.5% fee anonymous solo bitcoin mining for everyone
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jonnybravo0311
on 08/09/2014, 20:28:00 UTC
Let me give you a scenario.  I go and create this type of pool, and have 2 miners connected to it.  After a while the first block is found by miner 1.  Both miners have been submitting work equally.  I have 25BTC to give out.  Who gets it?  If I pay miner 1 the full 25BTC for finding the block, I don't have anything left to pay miner 2.  If I pay both miner 1 and miner 2 for the work they've done, I don't have the 25BTC to give to miner 1 for finding the block.  Make sense?
Just to tweak your scenario to suit my utopia.
2 miners connected, hashing equally.
Scenario 1: Miner 1 finds the block - Miner 1 gets 25BTC less the mining fees attributed to Miner 2's work which Miner 2 gets
Scenario 2: the pool wins the block - Each miner gets 12.5BTC including (or in addition to) the mining fees attributed to their work submissions

I think I found your confusion.  There is no such thing as "the pool wins the block".  Either miner 1 or miner 2 had to have solved the block.  Your scenario 1 is in reality your scenario 2, minus that "pool wins the block" stuff.  If both miner 1 and miner 2 are mining with equal hashing power and equally submitting shares, then they've each contributed exactly half the work necessary to solve the block.  Therefore, they're each going to get 12.5BTC.