The decentralized Bitcoin mining pool OCEAN recently raised a notable $6.2 million in a seed funding round led by billionaire Jack Dorsey. Other investors contributing to the collected $6.2 million include Barefoot Bitcoin Fund, NewLayer Capital, Bitcoin Opportunity Fund.
Decentralized Bitcoin Mining
Traditional Bitcoin mining pools are known to have full control over the rewards from blocks and the resulting transaction fees. They continue transactions by redistributing the emerging values among miners according to their own determinations. This arrangement also provides them with significant privileges, including the authority to withhold individual miners’ payments voluntarily or due to legal obligations.
OCEAN’s unsupervised payment system distributes earnings directly to miners through block rewards. This setup could eliminate the potential risks associated with existing traditional mining pools and prevent miners from being subject to undue influence.
