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This bitcoin miner rejected BIP-110 despite mining through a pool that supported it

This bitcoin miner rejected BIP-110 despite mining through a pool that supported itWorldPing

Ocean, a bitcoin mining pool, had been backing BIP-110 by default. Simple Mining, a company that runs mining machines through Ocean, used software from the pool that lets individual miners choose for themselves and went the other way.

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Brief by WorldPing · Original reporting by Bitcoin.com