Taproot has had no real adoption to speak of. 90% of the Taproot UTXOs in the UTXO set are leftover dust from inscriptions (less than 1000 sats).

Sí. En el parámetro stratum.vardiff_min de la configuración json.

Mechanic estuvo haciendo pruebas con Braiins y me recomendó subir este parámetro a 524288 (es 2^19). Por defecto OCEAN usa una dificultad mínima de 2^17, pero parece ser que para minar a hashrates altos es mejor subir el mínimo en el gateway.

Important to mention that the gateway works with any kind of Bitcoin node you want to use (Core v30, Core pre v30, Knots, BIP-110, ProductionReady when available, whatever).

Absolutely. And currently this can only be done "the proper way" with a DATUM gateway, as it allows you to mine at large scale with your node instead of just redirecting hash to someone else's pool.

Also, AntPool's share of the pie is much larger than that. Several other pools are known to be AntPool proxies because they serve the exact same mining jobs as AntPool.

This picture is more accurate: https://mainnet.observer/charts/mining-pools-hashrate-distribution/

Bitcoin is not a democracy.

But the old mining model could be described like a "representative hashocracy". Now DATUM allows individuals to participate in a "direct hashocracy" like in the good old days of Bitcoin before mining pools appeared 😬

Brutal.

Alright. Yes, these are always rejected.

No. Fortunately I've already met enough bitcoiners in real life that I no longer need to use P2P exchanges to stack non-KYC sats.

But only of them has hashrate for sale (and not much).

Yeah, it sucks. But not as much as NiceHash that requires full KYC from the get go (I cannot recommend that knowing how dangerous KYC is).

I hope they get more competition soon.

It's true that renting hashrate for your DATUM gateway is like swapping your UTXOs for new ones coming directly from the coinbase transaction of OCEAN blocks, but there's very little privacy (if at all) considering all the information that Braiins sees (and what's public).

You can add several layers of obfuscation, like disabling worker names in your DATUM gateway and exposing it to the internet from an IP not linked to you. But even then someone who is continuously scraping the Braiins orderbook and the DATUM dashboard can notice when a new bid appears for the first time in Braiins and if a new miner pops up on the OCEAN dashboard with the same hashrate.

You can further obfuscate a bit by having multiple bids and using username modifiers (https://github.com/OCEAN-xyz/datum_gateway/blob/master/doc/usernames.md#username-modifiers-advanced) to distribute your hashrate among several reward addresses, but as you see there's no silver bullet.

Braiins can accept any kind of sats. I have heard of people who had KYCed UTXOs rejected, and others who had they non-KYCed UTXOs accepted.

They run an annoying third-party "compliance service" that accepts or rejects incoming payments, and they are vague about the rejection criteria on purpose.

The reason they ask you to send sats from your wallet instead of an exchange doesn't have anything to do with KYC. It's because when they reject a payment they always send it back to the origin address, so you must make sure you're paying from an address under your control, or you could lose these sats (typically when you withdraw sats from an exchange, a payment is made from an exchange address which you do not control).

Worth noting that mining with hired hashrate on an open market is not nearly as private as a coinjoin. Braiins sees a lot of information, and if someone spends a lot of time squinting at the Braiins orderbook and the OCEAN dashboard it's probably possible to connect dots.

But to a casual observer of the blockchain, sure not. And it's cool to hold coinbase UTXOs 😎