Summary

After a lot of criticism that came Ocean's way in the beginning, the team over there has indeed shown the world that, truly, they're users of the bitcoin protocol that would deploy capital to acquire hardware to foster Ocean's vision as to what true sovereign mining is, and should be.
What was laughed at as a joke initially, has grown from <1 Eh/s to ~4Eh/s in about a year. One can only be optimistic about the development, as the company in question recently just launched DATUM, a way to further foster their vision of sovereign mining. Can't wait to see the TIDES game theory playout, as it's still the best payout scheme available today.
In Summary, Ocean's continuing to redefine what sovereign mining is all about while still accumulating hash-rate from low-time preference lovers of the protocol, and maintaining TIDES payout scheme remains the best compared to FPPS & PPLNS.

Couldn't be more bullish on Ocean!!!

ya theyve fucking shipped, between lightning receiving and DATUM its awesome to see 🤙
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can you please explain the chart, what are the two types of blocks theyve mined represent?
I love to see it. more power to the team ✌
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So the blocks that're just blue, are blocks found by Ocean as a pool relying on their bitcoin node's template generation. The blocks that show blue and white, are clocks found by miners running their own node as well as running Ocean's DATUM Gateway server, and what that does is allow you construct your own templates yourself, but still pointing your hash to ocean. So it brings back the power to the individual node runner/miner, as stipulated in the white paper.
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