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If you're interested in working on mining decentralisation, chipping away
at getblocktemplate support would be a better path forward. It's possible
to have decentralised pooled mining - I know it sounds like a contradiction
but it's not.

I wrote about some of the things that can be done in this blog post:

https://blog.bitcoinfoundation.org/mining-decentralisation-the-low-hanging-fruit/

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<div dir=3D"ltr"><div class=3D"gmail_extra">If you&#39;re interested in wor=
king on mining decentralisation, chipping away at getblocktemplate support =
would be a better path forward. It&#39;s possible to have decentralised poo=
led mining - I know it sounds like a contradiction but it&#39;s not.</div><=
div class=3D"gmail_extra"><br></div><div class=3D"gmail_extra">I wrote abou=
t some of the things that can be done in this blog post:</div><div class=3D=
"gmail_extra"><br></div><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><a href=3D"https://blog.=
bitcoinfoundation.org/mining-decentralisation-the-low-hanging-fruit/">https=
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/</a><br></div><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><br></div><div class=3D"gmail_ext=
ra"><br></div></div>

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