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Is anyone else concerned at all with the huge portion of the mining being undertaken by suprnova right now? They are contributing well over 51% of the current hashrate...

https://miningpoollists.com/hush/

We have been aware of this for a while. The community has been increasingly adding more mining pools with non-suprnova pools seemingly becoming more popular. In Slack we whole-heartedly advocate not to mine on a pool that has majority hashrate.

I'm mining on suprnova. Can you guys give me a reason not to?

Because it is in nobody's best interest to put over 50% of hashpower in a single pool. Move to hushpool.cloud for example which is also big enough to even out your income.

I don't want to sound like an asshole, but that reply doesn't convince me to move. I find suprnova easy to use and convenient with plenty of info. I need a real reason why I should move.

Have you ever heard of the 51% attack? Here is an article that explains it well. https://learncryptography.com/cryptocurrency/51-attack
They are speaking of bitcoin but I can't see any reason why this would not apply to HUSH as well, someone please correct me if I'm wrong. Having over 51% of the hashrate on suprnova gives them the ability to manipulate the public ledger and allow things like double spend or halting transactions.

I switched to aikapool.com about a month ago and it has been just fine. If you are in this to make money like I am then it's in your best interest to spread the hashrate around make sure nobody has the power to control this coin and potentially ruin it. Especially when it's as easy as making an account and changing one damn line in your config.

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