WEEK 5 MINING POOL RESULTS:
Most profitable:
-1.73% | Foundry (5 week streak)
-2.00% | ViaBTC
-2.47% | MARA Pool (4 week streak)
Least profitable:
-23.44% | BTC.com (2 week streak)
-21.15% | OCEAN (5 week streak)
-10.28% | Binance Pool
Leading censors:
88.19% | BTC.com
91.26% | OCEAN (5 week streak)
96.07% | Poolin (2 week streak)
What is a block's "Health" score calculated from?
Every time a block is mined, mempool.space takes a snapshot of the most profitable block template that could have been constructed by the miner. Whenever a pool excludes a high fee paying transaction, their "health" metric is damaged. A pool with a low health score means they are either censoring, or their node is not well connected to the rest of the network.
I'm enjoying this series. Thank you.
What is the censors score made up from?
The
Censorsleaderboard ranks which pool has the worst block health %.Ah, I see. Thanks for clarifying that.
So, just to be clear, we're not expecting ineptitude in template selection, but attribute deviation from the theoretical optimum as censorship, right?
Could we be missing some legitimate deviations or is the expectation that, if legitimate ones did exist, those wouldn't make a dent either way?
Legitimate deviations might appear if the pool is accepting out of band payment for transactions.
@k00b I fat fingered the boost amount on this comment 😂
Do the sats end up in the reward pool for comment boosts?
70/30 territory owners/rewards pool
i think btc.com still runs a node that only accepts 1 sat/vbyte transactions. So, they jumped ahead of Ocean just on that node function (although maybe that means they are also still at 83 bytes max for data too) and also actually finding some blocks for this week's report.
I just checked: BTC.com used to accept txs below 1 sat/vbyte, but they no longer do.
hmm, odd
@siggy47 are you still mine with ocean ?
Yes. I don't have many options as a small, non lottery miner. It really comes down to Ocean, Braiins, and I guess DMND now. Ocean is the only completely non custodial option. Brains offers LN payouts too, but I don't like that you have to create an account and it's not as private. I also prefer TIDES payout. DMND might be good, but no lightning. I really don't care about the custom templates offered by both Ocean and DMND.
reeelax... I am just busting your balls man :)
I know, but I do like comparing the few pools who cater to non lottery small miners. I hope there will be a lot more of us soon.