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You're not wrong that there's less pools, I think it's just somewhat due to a lot of miners not understanding how pools work. There's an unfortunate misconception that the size of the pool impacts your income, so they gravitate to the largest pool. Ghash.io is almost certainly evil (attacking sites by double spending in the past), but there's not much we can do about it unfortunately. Hopefully p2pool can eventually become larger and more significant, then the issue goes away somewhat.


Can you provide a source for Ghash.io double spending? I've not heard about that before, and it seems unlikely.



Critically in this thread they do acknowledge the double spends happened.




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