> To have any influence during the proof of work days you needed a server farm. This was also restricted to a small elite who could, if they wished, censor transactions.
Legitimate question because I don't know.
When I'm mining eth on my GPU while part of a mining pool, my understanding is that my GPU is racing to try and find the hash that works to start the next block. If I find it, I then am able to put transactions into the block and cap it off, but the reward doesn't go to me because I was part of a pool, so the pool shares the reward with everyone involved.
Are you saying I only find the answer to the block but the pool itself stuffs the block with transactions?
I don't know the specifics of your pool, but the block is the transactions, so if you get the lucky number and mine a block, you have mined a block that consists of a specific set of transactions in a specific order.
Though it's entirely possible that mining pools dictate which transactions get sent to their miners for them to try mining.
Legitimate question because I don't know.
When I'm mining eth on my GPU while part of a mining pool, my understanding is that my GPU is racing to try and find the hash that works to start the next block. If I find it, I then am able to put transactions into the block and cap it off, but the reward doesn't go to me because I was part of a pool, so the pool shares the reward with everyone involved.
Are you saying I only find the answer to the block but the pool itself stuffs the block with transactions?