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A big milestone for AtlasPool. Our first four endpoints — Ashburn, Portland, Frankfurt, and Hong Kong — are now running our newest build, and the early results on stratumrace.com are incredibly promising. Over the past 24 hours AtlasPool has won roughly 4 out of 5 block notification races against 25+ monitored pools. This build is the culmination of a lot of research and hard work chasing one goal: the most performant Bitcoin pool available to miners. Without going too deep into the weeds, it pairs the latest Bitcoin Core and ckpool with our own self-built tooling to squeeze out every last drop of performance, all running on blazing-fast AWS Graviton EC2 instances placed in some of the most interconnected locations in the world. It's been a real learning journey, and I'd be remiss not to thank a few people who helped along the way: @ProofOfMike — whose idea and early work measuring block notification speed eventually grew into stratumrace.com, and who's been a great sounding board for ways to improve the pool. @philip_dath — who has worked with me on a range of performance improvements across both the node and the stratum server. We're still at it today, and I really appreciate his expertise and his friendly attitude. Aviral at @Altair_tech — who understood AtlasPool from our very first conversation, and has supported the pool with important introductions, giveaways, and no shortage of encouraging words. @mutatrum — a longtime friend of the pool and a valuable technical sounding board, who helped pin down a few bugs. An all-around good dude. @WantClue — First person to interview me for a podcast and also added AtlasPool to the BitForge Nano firmware. And last but not least, Con Kolivas (CK) — whose awesome stratum server implementation is the bedrock of AtlasPool. A huge thank-you as well to our AtlasPool Discord crew, who keep the pool going with hashing, humor, and expertise: metaprinter (our first moderator, GZR, Travetown, RBX (first Aussie on the pool!), Beckels, Happy Day, Jeebz, BlackHole, proandres6 (biggest share so far at 66T), Mr. KV3 (we miss you!), Blockdyor (who wrote the first AtlasPool review), and many more. And a thank-you to DTV Electronics and the South African Bitcoin community for the sponsorship that helps power our London and Cape Town endpoints. If anyone else out there would be interested in sponsoring an endpoint, I'd love to hear from you. I'll be honest: it's a little disappointing that after nearly a year of operation AtlasPool hasn't found a block yet. But every one of these improvements shortens the odds, and I believe that moment is coming soon. Until then, I'll keep building and operating the most performant and reliable Bitcoin pool I can. Onward. 🧡

🏆 A NerdOctaxe just found at 50.5T best share. This is the new leader in our monthly contest and also the third best share on the pool ever. Tough to beat, but still four days left! If you are wallet owner ..pKft, DM me for prize info.

Ashburn, Portland, and Hong Kong are back on top on stratumrace.com. Since our last build we'd been chasing a small performance regression. It's now resolved on all three nodes, and they're back to leading on block notification speed. Frankfurt is next in line for an update.

The AtlasPool Hong Kong node was upgraded to the new build on late October 20 (UTC). So far, so good. The deployment was delayed a bit while I worked on a small improvement and waited to mine another testnet4 block (thank you @philip_dath). Safety first!

🏆 We have a new contest leader! A Canaan Avalon Q just posted a 9.8484 T share — the biggest of the month so far. Bonus flex: it missed the all-time top 10 by just 0.0019 T (~1.9 G). So close. 😮‍💨 Could this be our winner? Plenty of month left. ⛏️💎

We're excited to team up with our friend and partner Altair Technology to give away a Hammer Miner BC04 to the lucky person with the best share on AtlasPool through the end of October (starting October 11). Point your miner(s) at AtlasPool to qualify. You can track the top three contest leaders on the AtlasPool home page. Best of luck and get that block!

New build deployed to Ashburn (US) and Portland (US) endpoints. So far, very good. I'm carefully monitoring those servers before I deploy to the rest of the constellation. I will share more details about the rollout progress and the build itself in the coming week or so. Thanks and find that block!

New AtlasPool server build coming this week. Performance is on fire! 🔥 Just finished mining multiple testnet4 blocks and doing final preparations. More news in the coming days... 👀

For this user, amazing Bitaxe tuning coupled with AtlasPool's unparalleled performance yielded ZERO stale/rejected shares spanning 15K+ submitted shares.

⚡️ What is Accumulated Work? Every share our miners submit adds up into "difficulty-adjusted work" — a measure of how much real hashing AtlasPool has done toward finding a block. At today's network difficulty (127.45T), one block is expected per 127.45T of work. AtlasPool has now accumulated 156.2T — that's 1.23× the work needed for an average block. 🧡 Solo mining is memoryless: every share is a fresh lottery ticket, and our next one could be the winner. Onward to block #1. 🚀

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AtlasPool just crossed 2,000 average monthly concurrent workers ⛏️ Ten months ago it was merely 33 workers. Median hashrate: 0.14 → 22.8 PH/s Our first block is still out there. Come help us find it!

When a new block is found, the clock starts ticking. Miners still hashing the old block are doing wasted work. The faster your pool notifies you, the less you waste. This is what AtlasPool is built around. StratumRace.com measures block notification timing across pools from four locations worldwide, connecting to every pool at once so the comparison is apples-to-apples.

Thanks @altair_tech and @karpuzmining for the kind words. We agree with your sentiment that AtlasPool's awesome infrastructure and relentless focus on performance makes it the least latent and most available solo bitcoin pool! Check us out!

Great participation in today's rental push. It's not too late to join in. Best share gets this awesome AtlasPool Edition BitForge Nano. Jump in for the fun.