Any info available about Discus Fish ?

[crocko]

Hello !

As you can see Discus Fish is a major player on Bitcoin world.





Is DF a private pool or a public one ?
There is any info about the pool fee or how to join DF ?

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[mxz280]

http://www.f2pool.com/
PPS mineral pools, 4% fee.

[HellDiverUK]

Is DF a private pool or a public one ?
There is any info about the pool fee or how to join DF ?

It's a private pool, in that it's in China.

You can probably join the pool if you move to China, become a Chinese citizen, and start a mining business.

[crocko]

Is DF a private pool or a public one ?
There is any info about the pool fee or how to join DF ?

It's a private pool, in that it's in China.

You can probably join the pool if you move to China, become a Chinese citizen, and start a mining business.

LOL ! 

[Tegija]

http://www.f2pool.com/
PPS mineral pools, 4% fee.

edit: 3% fee.

sign up possible, its not private pool. they offer as option payouts to BTCChina in ¥.

[crocko]

http://www.f2pool.com/
PPS mineral pools, 4% fee.

edit: 3% fee.

sign up possible, its not private pool. they offer as option payouts to BTCChina in ¥.

Thank you for your update !

[kinlo]

Ah, nice to know.  I'll update blockorigin to point to that site (I haven't been able to pinpoint that pool, but then again, I haven't had much time to work on blockorigin lately)

[Sonny]

http://www.f2pool.com/
PPS mineral pools, 4% fee.

edit: 3% fee.

sign up possible, its not private pool. they offer as option payouts to BTCChina in ¥.

Thanks for the info.

[solex]

Interesting that a large block, 894 KB, is attributed to Discus Fish, when they were mining small blocks for a long time.

https://blockchain.info/block-index/473463/000000000000000115abc804b9a98a06c6bd5a3aa70c5ad3537a396cebd3a00a

[karlb187]

They the big fish now! 

[-ck]

Interesting that a large block, 894 KB, is attributed to Discus Fish, when they were mining small blocks for a long time.

https://blockchain.info/block-index/473463/000000000000000115abc804b9a98a06c6bd5a3aa70c5ad3537a396cebd3a00a

There's no such block. What were you trying to show? Bitcoind defaults to 750kb as the maximum block size and while we have some experimental ckpool instances mining larger blocks, I was not aware of any other pool doing so.

[solex]

Interesting that a large block, 894 KB, is attributed to Discus Fish, when they were mining small blocks for a long time.

https://blockchain.info/block-index/473463/000000000000000115abc804b9a98a06c6bd5a3aa70c5ad3537a396cebd3a00a

There's no such block. What were you trying to show? Bitcoind defaults to 750kb as the maximum block size and while we have some experimental ckpool instances mining larger blocks, I was not aware of any other pool doing so.

It was there when I posted the link. So must have been orphaned later. I did not imagine it.

[-ck]

Interesting that a large block, 894 KB, is attributed to Discus Fish, when they were mining small blocks for a long time.

https://blockchain.info/block-index/473463/000000000000000115abc804b9a98a06c6bd5a3aa70c5ad3537a396cebd3a00a

There's no such block. What were you trying to show? Bitcoind defaults to 750kb as the maximum block size and while we have some experimental ckpool instances mining larger blocks, I was not aware of any other pool doing so.

It was there when I posted the link. So must have been orphaned later. I did not imagine it.

Hmm usually blockchain stores orphans in its database and I doubt you'd have made up such a long URL.

Here's an example of a large block:
https://blockchain.info/block-index/460100

[solex]

Interesting that a large block, 894 KB, is attributed to Discus Fish, when they were mining small blocks for a long time.

https://blockchain.info/block-index/473463/000000000000000115abc804b9a98a06c6bd5a3aa70c5ad3537a396cebd3a00a

There's no such block. What were you trying to show? Bitcoind defaults to 750kb as the maximum block size and while we have some experimental ckpool instances mining larger blocks, I was not aware of any other pool doing so.

It was there when I posted the link. So must have been orphaned later. I did not imagine it.

Hmm usually blockchain stores orphans in its database and I doubt you'd have made up such a long URL.

Here's an example of a large block:
https://blockchain.info/block-index/460100

It is here: http://blockexplorer.com/block/000000000000000115abc804b9a98a06c6bd5a3aa70c5ad3537a396cebd3a00a

And size reported as 916KB.

Block number 289804

And is on bc.i where the path format is different from before...

https://blockchain.info/block/000000000000000115abc804b9a98a06c6bd5a3aa70c5ad3537a396cebd3a00a

[-ck]

That's good to see then ^_^

[robstark]

Is DF a private pool or a public one ?
There is any info about the pool fee or how to join DF ?

It's a private pool, in that it's in China.

You can probably join the pool if you move to China, become a Chinese citizen, and start a mining business.

LOL

[frigidformself]

I've done some digging around about f2pool since I have some miners on it.  It looks like it is a mining pool associated with the SilverFish SCRYPT ASIC hardware maker.  

If you go to the Silverfish website, https://sfminer.com/

Translate the website to English, then click on the Whitebait SOLO mine pool which takes you to http://sfasic.com/

From there, it links you to the f2pool website and the ptspool website.  The ptspool website also links back to f2pool from a link called "Go to Other Mineral Pools"

I would conclude that f2pool is likely being run by Silverfish; but I could be wrong.  


Edit.  Or I could go back and read the first post on their thread, sorry I read too fast sometimes. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=700411.msg7915080#msg7915080

[Gyrsur]

another large block of Discus Fish:

http://blockchain.info/block-index/465304/000000000000000019566fb61224a03893d4ff1b8259c1fc7ff1846a80280313

http://blockexplorer.com/block/000000000000000019566fb61224a03893d4ff1b8259c1fc7ff1846a80280313

[-ck]

There's already an official discus fish thread here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=700411.0 so there's no need for another thread, but I'm pleased they're mining full sized blocks. Hopefully they're not also mining zero transaction blocks as an optimisation.

Locking this thread.