for tips on this see rraisedbynarcissists <| sep |> The participation trophies really really seem to piss off the boomers . They mention them constantly . To me it shows just how fucking petty they really are . They have sucked the world dry and contiue to . But those fucking participation trophies . they are just the worst . <| sep |> Can I change the . co . uk to anything ? Like . fr or . de ? <| sep |> ok . all the information that you need to successfully mine a block of bitcoin is the latest block hash and details of your coinbase transaction where your mined coins are going to . the block hash is 32 bytes long hex string of 64 base 16 digits and is the big number you see listed on the site i posted . you do actually need a few other variables , but these are easy to determine on your own machine . what large pools , for instance antpool and f 2 pool , like to do is not announce when they ' ve found a block to the rest of the world . this means they basically hold the advantage known as selfish mining , as they get a head start on finding the next bitcoin block . the ' telltale ' sign of this happening , is connecting a miner to the pool and watching the stratum messages stratum detected a new block whilst keeping an eye on a bitcoin block explorer such as blockchain . info . if the stratum messages indicate that the pool is on a new block , for a significant amount of time , before any block explorersbitcoin nodes become aware of a new block this means the pool is trying to find its second or third block in a row . i ' ve personally witnessed antpool mine 3 blocks on top of each other without announcing any of them and then ' lose the lot ' as an honest pool announced the first block , that they ' d found , by surprise invalidating the blocks antpool had found . on a more technical note you could quickly script something that scrapes the newest block hash from the stratum messages and then tells the pool to switch to the new blockhash regardless if your local bitcoin daemon is still on the old one . nompunomp provide a cli script to do this . now as if that weren ' t bad enough , some of these dishonest pools are in cahoots f 2 pool , antpool , btcc , bw and actually share the latest block hash amongst each other . some people will tell you they do this for bandwidth reasons or that they ' re behind the great firewall of china so a local channel is required to ensure block propogation . however this is absolute garbage , as even behind a slow firewall like the gfc , bitcoin nodes will still communicate amongst themselves and do just this . transactions do enter into the argument here to a lesser degree as some of the worst offending pools ahem simple mine blocks with no transactions aside from the coinbase transaction . this is done because of greed and also to ensure the block gets quickly propogated throughout the bitcoin network the irony . some pools attempt to stuff a few transactions or send to their own addresses into these blocks to make themselves feel better , and also to make sure the block is accepted by all other nodes . quite a few of the tricks they employ may no longer work with the big changes coming up in the future of bitcoin which is why they do not want to shift to new software . no ' philisophical ' bullshit reasons like i see in headlines every day , life is not a zero sum game its purely financial . i ' m sure ive missed a bunch of stuff , but there you have it . jamesthe point of the site is to illustrate when one of the pools is mining ahead on a newer block hash , if you watch it for a while you ' ll see