> I don’t quite understand the point about fees increasing miner centralization- but I’m open to being educated here.
The FPPS payout formulas exclude outlier blocks with the highest and lowest fees earned each epoch. They do this so miners don't take a hit from empty blocks, right? LOL right... They do it so they can keep all the fees from shitcoin token launches for themselves. It has been a VERY profitable formula for the pools.
https://pool-faq.foundrydigital.com/what-is-foundry-usa-pools-payout-methodology
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2025-06-01 17:09:48
in reply to nevent1q…p0j3
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