<story><title>Bitcoin mining the hard way: the algorithms, protocols, and bytes</title><url>http://www.righto.com/2014/02/bitcoin-mining-hard-way-algorithms.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>verroq</author><text>I have written a proxy pool server (&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/dogestreet/proxypool&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;dogestreet&amp;#x2F;proxypool&lt;/a&gt;) in Haskell if anybody wants to check it out. It&amp;#x27;s a Stratum to Stratum protocol proxy, it lets you create a mining pool that mines into another mining pool.&lt;p&gt;(Disclaimer, only P2Pool upstreams work for now, I&amp;#x27;m trying to get it to work with stratum-mining).</text></comment>
<story><title>Bitcoin mining the hard way: the algorithms, protocols, and bytes</title><url>http://www.righto.com/2014/02/bitcoin-mining-hard-way-algorithms.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>plg</author><text>Ironically, the most cost efficient way of acquiring BTC today may well be to go out into the world and earn dollars (e.g. a job) and then use them to purchase BTC from an exchange.</text></comment>