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Title: Why don't more pools offer Anonymous mining by address? Post by: OgNasty on August 18, 2012, 07:29:10 PM It would be nice if there were other options that included not just PPS but DGM as well.
Pools that do offer it:
Title: Re: Why don't more pools offer Anonymous mining by address? Post by: dust on August 18, 2012, 07:30:57 PM Eligius offers mining with just an address as well.
Title: Re: Why don't more pools offer Anonymous mining by address? Post by: drakahn on August 18, 2012, 07:44:25 PM Some of those p2pool pass through's also
Title: Re: Why don't more pools offer Anonymous mining by address? Post by: Inaba on August 19, 2012, 12:49:50 AM Hmm... I could look at adding DGM to the anonymous mining... It was kind of an intention from the start, but so many other things have gotten ahead in priority.
Title: Re: Why don't more pools offer Anonymous mining by address? Post by: eleuthria on August 19, 2012, 01:37:30 AM BTC Guild will be introducing anonymous (mine-by-address) mining in the next month hopefully, when the new pool software (with the new protocol) is enabled.
Title: Re: Why don't more pools offer Anonymous mining by address? Post by: evanesce on August 19, 2012, 03:16:36 AM How hard is it to sign up to a pool? No more being lazy :)
Title: Re: Why don't more pools offer Anonymous mining by address? Post by: doublec on August 19, 2012, 07:13:38 AM mmpool.bitparking.com (http://mmpool.bitparking.com) used to do anonymous by address but when I switched to merge mining I needed a way for a user to provide all the alt coin addresses so I switched to needing to register where you supply the alt coin addresses at registration time. It's still anonymous though since it doesn't require any email addresses, passwords, etc.
The other option I considered was having an anonymous address and having the alt coins send to that address too - the user could then import the private key into their alt coin wallets but this was a bit technical for some users. Title: Re: Why don't more pools offer Anonymous mining by address? Post by: DrHaribo on August 19, 2012, 10:47:21 PM If you want to be anonymous on a pool that uses usernames, just pick a name people won't recognize as you.
Same thing on a pool that uses a bitcoin address instead of a username. To be anonymous you have to use an address people don't recognize as yours. What's the big advantage of using a BTC address as username? Title: Re: Why don't more pools offer Anonymous mining by address? Post by: bal3wolf on August 20, 2012, 05:26:37 PM If you want to be anonymous on a pool that uses usernames, just pick a name people won't recognize as you. Same thing on a pool that uses a bitcoin address instead of a username. To be anonymous you have to use an address people don't recognize as yours. What's the big advantage of using a BTC address as username? No one could hack your acount and steal your coins but alot of pools let you lock your btc address now days so thats not really a threat as it used to be. |