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Kortik 🇦🇲 · 47w
No pool mining is decentralized, even with datum or stratumv2. Just because one can create their own templates doesn’t mean pool decentralized. Because at the end of the day pool operator whoever...
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As you have shared in your photo, If you found a block and submit it to the bitcoin network through your node (independent from the template you are using), there is no possible way for that pool to stop that block from spreading through the bitcoin network. In this case OCEAN is just providing you the coinbase transaction but there is no way for them to invalid a found block published to the network.

Also if payouts are introduce in the coinbase transction changing them will invalidate the hole block, making it imposible for the pool to change the payouts after the found is found, so yes dezentralization can be possible with a pool.
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Kortik 🇦🇲 · 47w
If the pool server is able to reject a miners template even if you created it yourself, how are we decentralizing mining or template creation at all? 1. StratumV2 pools custom miner template is sent to the pool server: https://github.com/stratum-mining/stratum/blob/904ac8efcedb4a7a8c92b49b252aa7cd...