Before being shutdown in April 2020, Bytepool could easily have made a top 10 list of best mining pools. It was worth being involved in before the top dogs decided to half the mining rewards this is truly discouraging for upcoming miners.
A major discouraging fact was discovering that their hash rate dropped by over 90%. That was very unexpected and was a huge red flag which lead to their eventual demise.
It was great while it lasted though.
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