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How would a pool operator lose? They would pay out on the 0.8 branch, in bitcoins. Do pool operators pay in real-world currency like USD?
by erja 14y ago
How would a pool operator lose? They would pay out on the 0.8 branch, in bitcoins. Do pool operators pay in real-world currency like USD?
- RoboTeddy 14y agoThey do indeed pay in bitcoins. The payment transactions during the fork weren't lost, however-- they were confirmed on both branches of the chain. The only transactions that disappeared were the block reward transactions on 0.8. If pools paid miners using bitcoins from their own mined blocks, this problem would go away-- that's not a bad idea! edit: I asked -- some pool operators apparently already do this. The ones that lost out are the ones that don't.