The mining-focused FOSS ecosystem finds itself in the midst of a renaissance. Besides the efforts behind Sv2, DATUM, and “the open mining stack,” there are significant resources being pointed at projects that seek to reignite the spark that was once lit by the original P2Pool project.^[1]

Of the many reasons P2Pool failed, its inability to scale payouts remains one of the most notable.

As the community continues developing the protocols that support novel decentralized pool structures, it is important that we think deeply about how to scale coinbase-native payout protocols. This write-up is intended to stimulate discussion and research around this topic. We hope the community is excited to work on this problem collectively to come up with compelling solutions.

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