Hey everyone,
Back in the early days of Bitcoin, I was pretty involved in the scene, and there's a question that's been on my mind for a bit. Does anyone recall the first mining pool that let you mine Bitcoin and Namecoin simultaneously?
I vaguely remember you could merge mine both coins for a while, but I can't for the life of me recall how it worked or which pool it was. This was back when GPU mining was just kicking off.
If anyone has a clue, please share. It's been bugging me for a while.
Thanks, and hope you all have an awesome weekend!
I think it was Multipool, not 100% sure but close.
Thanks man, that was really bothering me.
If anyone knows of other pools that did the merged mining thing back than please comment below.
How about btccan.com it was mentioned here around that year but the problem is they are no longer active and the website seems expired it shows only Chinese text when accessing the website.
Why not check other pools listed from this link below
- https://miningpoolstats.stream/namecoin
Ah, the good old days when you could mine and not worry that much about the noise.
Here are a couple that I remember from back in 2011.
BTCGuild was late 2011 so that was also a possibility: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=49417.0
Eligius was mid 2011: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=23768.0
There were a bunch more back then that had NMC. Many came and went quickly.
-Dave
If I remember correctly it was possible on many pool since if you solved a BTC block you would automatically be able to submit the same block to the other network, since it would run on a cloned chain on the identical block number (?) and the same algorithm. Multipool it was possible 100%.