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I Have Not Given Up My SN mining pool idea yet...

646 sats \ 10 comments \ @siggy47 26 Mar bitcoin_Mining

I'm looking into possibilities. The Public Pool app on the Start9 Community Registry might be the easiest method. It is strictly for solo mining, however, so I guess the experience would be similar to CK Pool.

There are other options:

Signum Pool

(Very shitcoiny)

Ergo Subpooling

(Shitcoiny too, but does it matter for mining software?)

MPOS (Mining Portal Open Source)

(No active development anymore)

If anyone more experience would like to chime in with opinions on these choices, please do.

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51 sats \ 2 replies \ @optimism 26 Mar

All this is very convoluted.

I think the thing you'd (ultimately) want is a backend implementation of:

Stratum v2, or
DATUM

On an open source pool software.

The trick would be to basically make a ckpool (from memory the most functional open-source pool software I've come across) backend and integrate with either of these sovereign-block-template protocols.

Stratum v2 has from what I glanced a reference implementation, Datum has the gateway implementation, but I'm not aware of an open-source pool software that talks as a backend to that other than Ocean's (proprietary?) software?

100 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 OP 26 Mar

What do you think of Public Pool:

https://sethforprivacy.com/guides/run-your-own-bitcoin-pool/

36 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 26 Mar

Would be my second choice. I have read Seth's guide back when he wrote it, but that's really written for "run your own stratum server, for you". Both public-pool and ckpool software afaik have no support for either of the sovereignty-enhancing protocols you'd want; i.e the no-effort choices are currently limited to:

Ocean with DATUM,
DMND with stratumV2
"solo" ckpool/publicpool

36 sats \ 3 replies \ @Undisciplined 26 Mar

What was the problem with the OCEAN solution that someone mentioned?

33 sats \ 2 replies \ @siggy47 OP 26 Mar

I don't remember the problem that was mentioned. I don't know how it would work, but that would be a really simple solution. Sticking point would be you need CLN and Bolt 12 to get lightning payouts.

36 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 26 Mar

I'm sure we could figure that part out. I just remember someone saying that OCEAN allows sub-pools, which sounds like exactly what we're trying to do.

36 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 OP 26 Mar

Yes, I don't know much about sub pools on Ocean. I'll check it out.

36 sats \ 2 replies \ @jasonb 26 Mar

I used QEEQ for the first time this week. I was shocked (given how it was presented to me originally) how shitcoiny it is. It occurred to me though that if I'm just using bitcoin with it, and other folks are too, eventually they'll just faze unused shitcoiny stuff out. This seems like a similar area.

Remind me, are you hoping to create like a pool as fundraising for sn or just a normal pool that happens to be used be people that also use sn?

50 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 OP 26 Mar

I was just thinking a normal community pool, for the reasons stated in this article:

https://sethforprivacy.com/guides/run-your-own-bitcoin-pool/

36 sats \ 0 replies \ @jasonb 26 Mar

Cool!