[Omniscient]

We've had discussions before about solo miners winning the lottery. Looks like it happened.

That Twitter thread has some funny comments about it. Looks like a lot of people don't understand how Bitcoin mining works still.

[Omniscient]

I see these media headlines on a too-frequent basis. I'm not exactly sure how ck pool works so maybe there's an important detail I'm missing, but from my understanding of cryptography, you can't just look at a block and find out how much hashpower the miner who created it controls.

Mining not my thing so I got no idea. Let's see if SUI-3183372 knows.

[SUI-3183372]

Mining not my thing so I got no idea. Let's see if SUI-3183372 knows.

There's no way to view that data on-chain afaik.

With ckpool if you know who the miner is you can check their stats page to view their rates.

Looks like this was the block reward:
https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/transacti...7dbb98f5cd

ckpool takes a split and the rest goes to the miner, so I believe this is the miner:
1CEmkQkgiCMx6DHSDkHi53mL8oEthCZSw

Plug that into ckpool's stats panel and you can view their hash power:
https://solo.ckpool.org/users/1CEmkQkgiC...L8oEthCZSw

Code

{
"hashrate1m": "14.4T",
"hashrate5m": "11.3T",
"hashrate1hr": "9.89T",
"hashrate1d": "10.1T",
"hashrate7d": "11.2T",
"lastshare": 1674255974,
"workers": 4,
"shares": 86333889624,
"bestshare": 71294311522514.55,
"bestever": 71294311522514,
"worker": [
  {
   "workername": "1CEmkQkgiCMx6DHSDkHi53mL8oEthCZSw",
   "hashrate1m": "14.4T",
   "hashrate5m": "11.3T",
   "hashrate1hr": "9.89T",
   "hashrate1d": "10.1T",
   "hashrate7d": "11.2T",
   "lastshare": 1674255974,
   "shares": 61912458123,
   "bestshare": 71294311522514.55,
   "bestever": 71294311522514
  }
]
}

[Maskin]

That’s insane if done with only 10TH

[SUI-3183372]

Sure, but can't a single miner with 100 ASICS register 100 different accounts to to make himself appear unusually lucky by only revealing the winning machine after one finds a block? Also, what service is ck's "pool" doing for its customers that is valuable enough they can charge a fee for it?

Yes and I'm not sure. I was wondering similarly while looking into them.

[PR1V473]

From GPU mining perspective, if you have 2 RIGs named both "OMNI_MINER" the pool will combine the hashrate into one worker name.