Actually, is better to have peers than relays
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You should give a try to vkbit.
Cheers.
Considering that a single bitcoind can only handle a limited number of peers quickly,
the more 'relays' you have, the more peers you will have,
and having multiple steps through multiple peers, to get to the big pools, slows down your block distribution.
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why because you can give a virgin address with no one knowing who hit the block.
the fact that ckpool allows for a virgin address giving you privacy is good.
Actually ck pool is one of the worst for privacy.
All your mining there, is clear text including your BTC address, over the internet, about 26000 times a day.
So it defines your miner IP address associated with that BTC address.
Of course no one would be silly enough to mine through tor or a vpn since that dramatically increases the chance of losing your block.
BTC addresses are not private unless you have your own custodial wallet, never use the address, never reuse the address, and thus never spend your BTC.
Also, being a 'virgin' address makes no difference to privacy.
The block still says it was mined at his pool, just the BTC goes only to your address, not via another trusted address.
e.g. at my pool it goes to the pool address first then directly to the BTC address in your account.
This also resolves a problem where some exchanges are problematic about coinbase transactions and require trusted BTC address sources.
Note also, my pool makes only 1 block difference to the timing of being able to use your BTC, since even if the block sends it directly to your wallet, you still have to wait 100 blocks before you can spend it (and then that will also guarantee it's no longer private
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