On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Roy Badami <r...@gnomon.org.uk> wrote: >> Sure they are paying themselves, but given bitcoin network >> difficulty is uso high, simply obtaining payments-go-myself-as-miner >> transactions is itself difficult. > > Not for pool operators it isn't. Nor for people buying hashing power > from a GPUMAX-type service, if such services still exist (or should > they exist again in future).
Re-read what I wrote. That's perfectly OK. It is analogous to a pool operator receiving merged mined coins, each time they mine a bitcoin block. If you achieve the very high difficulty needed to create a valid bitcoin block, you have achieved a very high bar. -- Jeff Garzik Senior Software Engineer and open source evangelist BitPay, Inc. https://bitpay.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ How ServiceNow helps IT people transform IT departments: 1. A cloud service to automate IT design, transition and operations 2. Dashboards that offer high-level views of enterprise services 3. A single system of record for all IT processes http://p.sf.net/sfu/servicenow-d2d-j _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development