Slush Pool to Let Hashers Vote on Segregated Witness Activation: ‘Mining Pools Should Remain Neutral’

Bitcoin’s oldest mining pool, Slush Pool, will let its miners vote on the Segregated Witness soft fork proposed by Bitcoin Core. By passing this choice down to individual miners that connect to the pool (sometimes also referred to as ‘hashers’) Slush Pool hopes to remove itself as a decision maker from the equation.
Speaking to Bitcoin Magazine, Slush Pool operator Marek ‘Slush’ Palatinus stated:
‘Satoshi’s idea was not to have a few entities control the network. As a mining pool we shouldn’t rule.’

This post was published at Bitcoin Magazine on Nov 18, 2016.