Overdue post for one of the best hackathons in the Bitcoin space! After attending
@btcplusplus we became aware of the centralization risks of Bitcoin pool mining. 🧵👇
As community organizers, we felt compelled to empower our local communities to take action and encourage participation in the Bitcoin network.
🚀 Introducing Hash League – a leaderboard ranking #Bitcoin communities by the combined hashrate of their mining pools. Born out of
@btcplusplus and a desire to decentralize pool mining. Here's how we built it:
⚙️Hash League ranks Bitcoin communities based on the total hashrate of their mining pools. It’s a live leaderboard powered by publicly accessible Stratum data.
📍Community organizers can add their meetups or mining pools via GitHub. Hashrate data is pulled live from public Stratum servers. Check it out and claim your meetup:
Hash League - Global Bitcoin Mining Pool Visualization
A leaderboard that ranks bitcoin communities by the combined hashrate of their community mining pools.
🔧 We built it by launching our own mining pool on an AWS EC2 instance using a public pool setup linked to a meetup. Then we:
– Hooked it into our web app
– Pointed BitAxes miners at our pool
– Built a clean UI showing real-time pool rankings
🔮Next On the roadmap:
– Stratum V2 SRI support
– DATUM Gateway API
– NOSTR integration with FROSTR for pool signature delegation that community organizers can leverage
🌐We're making enhancements before submitting it to the
@npub1t8a7...56yu hackathon. Feedback is welcome on the GitHub!
@npub1nxy5...lnxl and I are honored to have won:
🏆 Most Educational
🎨 Best Design
🥇 Overall 1st Place
🧡 Huge thanks to
@niftynei() 🇺🇸💸🧡 and the amazing panel of judges who made the hackathon possible. We're grateful to have been a part of it!
Let’s see which meetup is not all talk. Go join a pool or create a new one. Show us your proof of work!
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