I run Bitcoin Knots and solomine with DATUM from Ocean and BitAxe 🤙

More from Anton:
"I support the Ocean pool because the team of people which are running the Ocean pool are good people, with good intentions. They have proved more than once, to be on the side which is:
- against mining centralization,
- defending and promoting nodes (preventing node centralization),
- the only ones who dared to speak against Core.
While Ocean could become just another mining pool, joining others in the money grab, by mining spam, they were the first pool to allow miners, to choose the mempool policy. Ocean had at least 4 different nodes with 4 different mempool policies (filtering policies) available for miners, to choose from. Ocean pool even hosted a node running Core client up to December 2025.
The most important part is that they didn't stop there. They honestly wanted to fight mining centralization. They noticed that Stratum V2 is a dead end and decided to develop a better software - DATUM Gateway.
Datum Gateway encourages a miner to setup their own node (which is simple to do) and then install Datum in the same hardware, as just another app, which then connects to their node and allows miners, even the small ones, to make their OWN hash templates using their own node.
To convince miners to do that, Ocean pool went above and beyond, by offering 50% fee discount to anybody running their own node and Datum gateway. That means that Ocean pool gave up their profits to encourage more people to run nodes and to fight mining centralization.
And that's not all.
Datum gateway allows a small miner to choose not to mine in a pool. Datum allows one to go lottery mode and be their own pool. While at the moment it is better for me and Bitcoin that I hash within the pool, at certain point in the future, after a halving or two, I may go lottery mode too."
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