He is not the only one.
It appears to me, Bitcoin is rotten to the core, makes the banking sector look legit (morally of course)
Like in any maffia, don't piss off the wrong people.

WRONG: Banks control the governments not other way around. Who do you think pays for election campaingns?

Do not start threads about Slushpool in the mining>pool area. it will be locked or deleted.
The moderator owns pools in competiton with slush.  He has multiple threads about his pool but  multiple threads  on other pools are not alowed.  So much for  freedom of speech

NO THANK YOU!  Stay on topic or you will have the thread locked.
Anyway, what should I vote for... and why?

The subjet has bee locked by -ck

How can i get this thread unlocked? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1389933.0

No miner representation.    I tried to get people interested in a International Bitcoin Miners Union so we could get some conscientious on such issues but it got jumped on. Plus, no one seems interested. See the link in my signature.

(quick joke: Q) What's the difference between a Doctor and God,  A) God doesn't think he's a Doctor )

edit:

Looks like someone already tried.  Shame, the thread was locked in no time.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1389933.0
A descution and a vote would have helped me understand. I thaught that was what forums were about
Is this forum is a dictatorship?  And closed to a select few?
Looks like we have to do as we are told or fuck off

I have 700Gh/s pointed at Slushpool.   They gave me a vote.  I have posted on the mining pool threads as i do not know which way to vote.  Don't understand the risk, don't trust people to give a straight answer.  Will prob go with the flow; and it looks classic at the mo.

I don't think miners share information freely, it is dominated by a few pool owners that (intentionally or not) control debate.  Slush has a thread on this forum but it is moderated by one of his competitors so he don't post.  Don't seem fair to me.  But it is a bit klicky.

What should I vote? I was thinking of starting a voting thread

Number one = how long the conformations take

And here is me thinking the banks are the criminals.  In Iceland they put the people that crashed the economy in prison, in UK they gave them a golden handshake.  There are many criminals in the western establishment and governments and financial sectors just like there are some very honest people running underground gangs.  The intelligence services do not trust the police, the military don't trust politicians.  Money is power and the only law is you conscience. So if they use bitcion it is good to me.

Anyway, what kind of media do you guys consume?? I hear only good things of Bitcoin. Although I never hear it mentioned on mainstream media (Not that i consume much of that).
 I do hear the bitcoin users i know complain about how long conformations take. Although people are usually happy to pay a larger (up to 3/4 mBTC) transaction fee than the wallet default of about 1/10th mBTC. Bitcoin looses out to Western Union and paypal in my opinion because it can take so long. 
Also i have had ebay listings taken down for stating that i accept bitcoin.

For me, mining is getting expensive for the small miner and pools want to keep the transaction fees.   The mining is becoming centralised in China.  Pools are often under DDos or block withhold attacks.  No one can trust anyone anymore.  Who knows what will happen when the block payment halves.

BTW all out there, Slush put this on Facebook 6th March 08:19 GMT
I have experienced a major crash of our web server and one of the EU stratum servers. All mining traffic has been working correctly, so no damage to the mined shares - all shares have been cached. The workload of the failed stratum has been taken over by the rest of the infrastructure. The data is currently being synchronized to the database. I expect all mining results to be up and synced within an hour. I have put the web into maintenance mode temporarily so that you are not confused by showing partially mined results. ‪#‎mineasone‬

well put blockchainmines

This is the problem, Bitcoin is unregulated.  No one miner or pool owner can be trusted.  The only person you can trust is yourself but, there is no money to be made solo with 700Gh/s. (Plus having to run a node,... unless the transaction payments go up big-time).
When Slush went down last night i cut my hashpower to them because you just don't know where its going.  But what can a UK miner do.  Go to a pool in China? or one in the the US? (after hearing Trump's greed chants, no thanx) If someone is gona make money from my mining, I want it to go into a country i support.  Why hasn't Russia got a pool?

Anyway, what should I vote for... and why?

Ecology & Bitcoin Mining - What is your CO₂ Footprint?

If you mine bitcoin are you helping to destroy OUR environment?
Is the coin you get worth the damage we cause to our planet?
Do we cause less damage than the Despotic Kleptocratic Banksters?
Will we be be closed down by pressure from organisations like Friends of the Earth?
Is it time to unionise?

Thoughts appreciated.

How to Increase Bitcoin Mining Profitability with IBMU

There are many posts about the profitability of mining and how hard it is to make coin.
Many feel helpless, so think about closing down.

I also have friends that spend and receive BTC on a daily basis.  They complain on how long transactions take to get confirmations.  Some are not computer literate.  The only reason they use BTC is because of anonymity and / or it takes power away from the corrupt banking sector.  (Remember; in Iceland the bankers that crashed the economy went to prison while in other countries they were bailed out by taxpayers) Also, now that interest rates are negative, when you deposit money with these banks they charge an annual fee.

Many of these people have started to increase the default transaction fee on their wallets.  From 0.0002BTC (1/5mBTC) to 0.0005BTC (1/2mBTC) or even 0.00075BTC (3/4mBTC).
This will get them faster confirmations but it is often the pools that benefit from this and not the miner.  Soon the blocks will half from 25BTC to 12.5BTC so we need to think about what (if anything) we can do to increase mining profitability.

I am sure pools will change their approach if there is a shift to solo mining but only those with peta-tonnes of hashpower have any real leverage. 

Unless we Unite..?
 
If both small and large miners unite and form an International Bitcoin Miners Union (IBMU) we may have a voice.
Yes I understand that so much of the hashpower now comes from China, but now China is hurting too and,... we may get their support yet.

“Miners of the world unite, you have nothing to loose but your (block)chains”

I am interested in the views of miners and pool operators.
I am interested in proposals for industrial action.
If you speak a language other than English, Please translate this post and use it to start a thread in the “local” area of this forum. You may also give feedback here of what the non English speaking feeling is on this issue.

Remember not to go off topic. Keep all posts related to:
“How to Increase Bitcoin Mining Profitability with IBMU”
If you do not mine, DO NOT POST (start your own “Friends of IBMU or FIBMU”)

Thank you and remember, Bitcoin loves you.

As i understand it, if some solo loto miner at cksolo pool mined the block, it would be the pool owner ck that picked up the BTC15.  The miner would have the usual BTC25. Not that it happend that way but interesting all the same.

How many individuals solo mine?  Lucky pool owner hay.

Ok, thank you Con and JB.  Its all starting to fall into place a bit better now, thanks for the explanation.

Yes it is an ambitious project but if it works, and my understanding of computers grows, It becomes evidence I can use to prove I have value.  I may be able to get funding for better hardware.  Also, it's better than sitting in a darkened room wondering how best to spend my time. 
I can get hold of some hardware that needs repair at low cost and i have equipment and knowlage of PCB repair.  My eyes may be poor and i may be slow but i can still gas pencil fine pitch ICs on and off multi layer boards. What spec machine do i need to meet my requirments?

So...Fedora-Live-Workstation-i686-23-10 is looking good.  The settings that gives people with disability access is called “Universal Access” once found and set, the whole world of Fedora lights up for me.  I am sure the high contrast will help optimise things too as lots of the eye candy disappears when I turn it on.  I can work with this.  Wi-Fi driver good, quickly online and browsing .

Now that I see the wood from the trees I will do a full install on the node machine tomorrow and download Bitcoin Core GUI.  I assume I download for Linux?   Fedora is Unix??? not sure, what is the difference?

Also, not sure what support is out there for running Bitcoin Core on Fedora but I guess i'm gona find out.  

The blockchain will take at least 2 weeks to download.  So this may end up like “War and Peace” by the time I am up and running.

As i understand, No one Solo mines without depending / trusting a 3rd party (pool) of some description.  You cannot mine independently. Therefore the system is not truly decentralised.  Someone always owns your ass. This is an issue i am also working on.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1375042.msg14076144#msg14076144
If it is possible, ? sill unsure?  then this forum could benefit from a good  “How to Solo Mine 2016” thread.
IF I get mine to work, I will post such a thread.

Please understand:

A) This process has the intended outcome of SOLO Mining. 

B) ckpool will be my failover.
 
C) Miners will be 2x Bi-fury, U3, S1 (underclocked with SM resistor mods) and an S3+. Total, ~700Gh/s

Thank you,
I am currently trying to audition LIVE operating systems with the intention to insall the best of the bunch but my eyesight is poor so it is a slow process.
here is how i have got on:

tails-i386-2.0
I have to put my face 4 inches away from the screen to see how to use this system but I managed to run it from a stick and get on line

xubuntu-14.04.3-desktop-i386  -
I have to put my face 6 inches away from the screen to see, but I managed to run it from a stick, no wi-fi support without finding drivers for my Broadcom Corp wlan 1390 mini wi-fi adapter. Gave up at that point.  (need to research how to make menus, fonts, icons, contrast bigger/better before I proceed )

debian-live-8.3.0-i386-cinnamon-desktop  
No hardware acceleration so CPU working hard, -- no wi-fi for Broadcom Corp wlan 1390 mini wi-fi adapter. (need to research how to make menus, fonts, icons, contrast bigger/better before I proceed )

linuxmint-17.3-mate-32bit
Poor contrast, very difficult to see around. -- no wi-fi for Broadcom Corp wlan 1390 mini wi-fi adapter. (need to research how to make menus, fonts, icons, contrast bigger/better before I proceed )

CorePlus-current
No driver for Broadcom Corp wlan 1390 mini wi-fi adapter. (need to research how to make menus, fonts, icons, contrast bigger/better before I proceed )

EasyPeasy-1.6  -- no wi-fi driver (more research needed)

Fedora-Live-Workstation-i686-23-10 -- wi-fi ok, I like this and need to go back for a second look

linux-lite-2.6-32bit   -- no wi-fi driver (more research needed)

liberte-2012.2 -- wi-fi ok (more research needed)

xpud-0.9.2 The best by far.  Easy to see Icons, menus etc, wi-fi ok, I could not find usb devices plugged in to my machine.(more research needed)



***Missing Driver: Broadcom Corp wlan 1390 mini wi-fi adapter***
Code for fetching driver ?:I need a system with a good GUI rather than having to code all the time.

Thanks again for your support.
Also, my current OS is on a small 30GB HHD formated to NTFC.  Will it reformat under a new install.  Also my Blockchain Directory is on an external HHD formated to NTFC.  Will i need to format to somthing like FAT32 and download the whole 60GB again when run Bitcoin Core? Or can i copy and reuse it under a different format etc??? hmmm...