Dad first. Bulldogs, hashes & hustles 🧱⚡ Bitcoin mining class of 2014. Built on Linux, networks & security. Not a UFC/NFL/NBA analyst… but I play one on X.
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Wanted to get this out. More features and updates planned as time permits. Feedback and ideas welcomed.
Pool Directory is live.
Every pool we track now has a profile with hashrate, payouts, stratum details, verified blocks, and StratumRace data.
What’s missing? What would you like to see? Let us know.
stratumrace.com/pools
Looks like the bad luck is finally behind us. Let’s see a few more! ⛏️
The observant amongst you may have noticed this tiny luck addition to stats.ckpool.org. It shows what the probability is of reaching this pool difficulty and is a surrogate marker of "luck." We are a long way from the worst luck the pool ever saw which I searched for and found was on Christmas day 2016 at a truly horrendous 789%.
Footnote: This value is never perfectly accurate because it does not take into account diff changes over the block solve duration, underestimating it when diff is rising, and vice versa.
One of the best things about Bitcoin mining has been the people I’ve met along the way, including Matt, who I’m lucky to call a friend. A good chunk of my daily texts are with people I’ve gotten to know through mining, and half the time we’re not even talking about Bitcoin anymore.
A big milestone for AtlasPool. Our first four endpoints — Ashburn, Portland, Frankfurt, and Hong Kong — are now running our newest build, and the early results on stratumrace.com are incredibly promising. Over the past 24 hours AtlasPool has won roughly 4 out of 5 block notification races against 25+ monitored pools.
This build is the culmination of a lot of research and hard work chasing one goal: the most performant Bitcoin pool available to miners. Without going too deep into the weeds, it pairs the latest Bitcoin Core and ckpool with our own self-built tooling to squeeze out every last drop of performance, all running on blazing-fast AWS Graviton EC2 instances placed in some of the most interconnected locations in the world.
It's been a real learning journey, and I'd be remiss not to thank a few people who helped along the way:
@ProofOfMike — whose idea and early work measuring block notification speed eventually grew into stratumrace.com, and who's been a great sounding board for ways to improve the pool.
@philip_dath — who has worked with me on a range of performance improvements across both the node and the stratum server. We're still at it today, and I really appreciate his expertise and his friendly attitude.
Aviral at @Altair_tech — who understood AtlasPool from our very first conversation, and has supported the pool with important introductions, giveaways, and no shortage of encouraging words.
@mutatrum — a longtime friend of the pool and a valuable technical sounding board, who helped pin down a few bugs. An all-around good dude.
@WantClue — First person to interview me for a podcast and also added AtlasPool to the BitForge Nano firmware. And last but not least,
Con Kolivas (CK) — whose awesome stratum server implementation is the bedrock of AtlasPool.
A huge thank-you as well to our AtlasPool Discord crew, who keep the pool going with hashing, humor, and expertise: metaprinter (our first moderator, GZR, Travetown, RBX (first Aussie on the pool!), Beckels, Happy Day, Jeebz, BlackHole, proandres6 (biggest share so far at 66T), Mr. KV3 (we miss you!), Blockdyor (who wrote the first AtlasPool review), and many more.
And a thank-you to DTV Electronics and the South African Bitcoin community for the sponsorship that helps power our London and Cape Town endpoints. If anyone else out there would be interested in sponsoring an endpoint, I'd love to hear from you.
I'll be honest: it's a little disappointing that after nearly a year of operation AtlasPool hasn't found a block yet. But every one of these improvements shortens the odds, and I believe that moment is coming soon. Until then, I'll keep building and operating the most performant and reliable Bitcoin pool I can.
Onward. 🧡
For the love of God, more code, more tests, and more process don’t necessarily mean more progress.
Sometimes you’re just engineering a more sophisticated way to get absolutely nothing done.
Got into a theological debate with a priest while waiting for coffee this morning. Finally had to pull rank and inform him I’m an ordained minister of the Church of the Latter-Day Dude. Got my credentials online 20 years ago. Father, it’s Sunday. You’re making me late for football. The Dude abides.
ProofOfMike ⚡️ retweeted
1/ We've temporarily removed NexusPool from StratumRace and recalculated the leaderboards without it. Its full-template results were being scored on a partial template, not its complete one. It can return once our collectors credit every pool at its first complete template.
WHERE ARE THE SOLO MINING BLOCKS?! ⛏️
CKPool: 286% of expected work
Parasite: 228%
AtlasPool: 128%
Across their respective droughts, that’s ~6.4 blocks’ worth of work with NOTHING to show for it.
Screw you, variance.
SHOW ME A HOME MINER BLOCK.
Just met the inventor of email outside Market Basket handing out campaign flyers. If this Senate thing doesn’t work out, maybe he and Al Gore can team up for a presidential run.
Papa Gino’s, could you remind Drake Maye that your pizzas are the only thing he’s supposed to deliver to Buffalo on Sunday? Not the meatball subs. @PapaGinos 😂
Spooky season is officially underway at Parasite Pool. 👻⛏️
@BobbyShakesX and the crew throwing another block party. This one could be their biggest yet. 🔥
At my kid’s football game today, because of course 7th grade football overlaps NFL Sunday. Another dad sees me staring at my phone: “What’s the Pats score?” Sorry buddy. Not ESPN. Watching my miners on @HashWatcher. 🤣
ProofOfMike ⚡️ retweeted
⚡️ What is Accumulated Work?
Every share our miners submit adds up into "difficulty-adjusted work" — a measure of how much real hashing AtlasPool has done toward finding a block.
At today's network difficulty (127.45T), one block is expected per 127.45T of work.
AtlasPool has now accumulated 156.2T — that's 1.23× the work needed for an average block. 🧡
Solo mining is memoryless: every share is a fresh lottery ticket, and our next one could be the winner. Onward to block #1. 🚀
This came out damn good. Great collaboration between an excellent builder and a top tier pool. 🔥
Excited to drop the brand-new @AtlasPool_io Edition NerdQX! ⚡️ Powered by 4× BM1370 ASICs pushing up to 8 TH/s with custom copper accents, plasma disc atlaspool logo, and custom LED lighting.
This is a very limited small batch, once they are gone there will be no more made. 👀
Grab your one of a kind miner now! ixtech.xyz/products/nerdqx-a…
PSA: The Super Bowl is on Valentine’s Day. You’ve got five months to start laying the groundwork for whatever excuse you’re going with. 😂
Yep… NFL season is finally here. I’m so excited I’m not even mad I’m about to spend the next few months getting pitched Papa Gino’s stuffed crust by Drake Maye every 20 minutes. 😂
Joel was kind enough to foot the bill for a Bitkey for me. Great guy, and what he’s doing to get these into the hands of Bitcoiners is pretty damn cool. Excited to check it out.
The new Zyber 12 looks damn cool.
When I found my way back into mining I reached out to a bunch of companies with every question I had. Things had come a long way since the garage full of roaring Antminers. Winston at @TinyChipHub answered me. Then answered me again. And again. And again. He put up with the questions, opinions, random ideas, and general bullshit when plenty of others would’ve stopped responding.
Somewhere along the way the conversations stopped being just about mining. We talk industry, community, culture, life, and plenty of complete nonsense. I’m happy to call him a genuine friend now.
I’ll always call devices and companies exactly how I see them. Friendship isn’t going to change that. But loyalty means something to me, and there’s a part of me that really enjoys seeing the people who went the extra mile succeed.
The Zyber 12 looks like a hell of a device. Excited to see where Winston and the team take things next.
StratumRace now has a detailed view for each pool we monitor, with an overview of the pool’s features, blocks found, pool stats, and StratumRace performance.
Here’s a look at @Parasite_wtf, which has historically been a consistent top 3 performer on our leaderboard.
