AVERAGE_GARY - OP_SECURETHEBAG on Nostr: Node connectivity absolutely matters for mining. Thinking otherwise is retarded. ...

Node connectivity absolutely matters for mining. Thinking otherwise is retarded.

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You seem to be under the impression that a pool must broadcast a block to minimize risk of it being orphaned. This isn't remotely true and was a weird part of your celebration with the FutureBit block last month.

Blocks are tiny and propagate really fast. We....kind of fought a war about maintaining that. Remember?

Really don't appreciate you asserting that I'm trying to be disingenuous or evasive here, you genuinely don't seem to have a firm grasp of where the bottlenecks actually lie.

You're imagining that it's better for a miner to tell a pool about a block and leverage their supposed superior connectivity rather than tell the network about it directly.

Amazingly, adding a middle man only slows things down.