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pico4 1 week ago
I honestly dont think pools like foundry will swith at this point. 20 blocks in, with already some blocks mined by them, it would be a waste of computing. And it's less and less possible as time passes and more blocks get added. It would be possible for a pool that has not mined on the longest chain yet. Lots of fees to get in a chain that does not seem to have as much miner competition.

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Bip 110 chain says 90k sat/vbyte for one block right now. That's roughly 90 btc in fees from one block. If foundry flipped and found a block on the bip 110, that would make up for the losses from the reorg and much more. I don't think it will happen but there is a chance I guess. Obviously the other pools would also have to be paying attention and capitulate which with 30% hashrate, they might.