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Re:Someone paid $2.6M in fees to move $134 worth of cryptocu... by dannyw on Thursday June 11, 2020 @01:43PM (#23491342)
Mining pools are run by teams of people whose full time jobs are to take care of their pool. I don't think any significant BTC or ETH pool runs standard software without any modifications.

I wanted to get a custom coinbase message included in a block, and paid $500 to a pool for the privilege.

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