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XBTO Digital unveils the rebirth of Bitminter, a pioneer in Bitcoin mining. With a flawless record, devoid of hacks, breaches, or significant outages, Bitminter has set the industry standard since 2011.
📈💰Impressive Track Record: Minting 208,332 BTC Over 6,487 Blocks
Committed to Your Success; Trust in our top-notch team, fully dedicated to serving the mining community since 2011
Can you prove it? You could very well use Bitminter's image without having any connection with their team.
Apart from a Linkedin post from 5 months ago, we can't find anything about you online.
Can you give us the block numbers that your pool has found? This could help you to build trust in the community.
Discrete Mining for Uninterrupted Operations from threat actors
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Please, tell us more about this, I am curious. "Discrete mining" ?
Also, I spent some time to read your terms and conditions. Can you tell us more about your KYC policy?
Legal Compliance
The Pool may have an Anti-Money Laundering and Know-Your-Customer (“AML/KYC”) program
to detect and prevent money laundering. You shall submit any documents or information
requested by XBTO Digital for compliance purposes. We will manage your personally
identifiable information in compliance with applicable privacy laws. The Pool is not available in
any location sanctioned by the U.S. government or prohibited by applicable law. XBTO Digital
may conduct background checks on users at any time for any lawful purpose. We may monitor
and investigate your use of the Pool for any lawful purpose. We may use cookies or the like to
track your use of the website. We may report suspected unlawful activity to legal authorities. We
may allow legal authorities to access your account and information
Source :
https://pool.xbtodigital.io/static/XBTO-Digital-Pool-Terms.pdfHow can you possibly think that my hashrate could be linked to some money laundering activity? A flagged BTC withdrawal
address? A large volume of hashrate rented via Nicehash that could be used to receive clean BTC from your pool?
And if you suspect this, what documents are you going to ask for?
You've been "serving the mining community since 2011", except for miners located in Syria, Iran, Russia, Burundi, Afghanistan, China, Cuba, Belarus, Venezuela etc.
The Pool is not available in any location sanctioned by the U.S. government or prohibited by applicable law
I'm not naive, I fully understand that you are located in the USA, and that you must therefore respect US law.
But...
We may report suspected unlawful activity to legal authorities. We
may allow legal authorities to access your account and information
This just confirms what mikey said a few days ago:
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Probably the time to make a community-owned PPS pool will come soon, I always thought it would be to fight decentralization but it seems to be now needed to protect privacy, an anonymous PPS pool would be an interesting idea, something like the old p2pool with a smart contract of users funds that acts as a pool fund to distribute rewards to miners where the people who provide liquidity get paid some %.