O que é Mining pool?
A coordinator that combines many miners' hashrate and distributes rewards proportionally, smoothing income that would otherwise be extremely lumpy.
A solo miner with a small share of network hashrate might find a block once a decade. Pools let participants receive steady payouts proportional to work contributed.
The trade-off is concentration: pools have historically chosen which transactions go into blocks, which is a real centralisation concern even though the underlying hashrate belongs to independent operators who can and do switch pools.
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