Zappool status update: - The 60ksat giveaway was completed all right! It hasn't made a huge splash, but it got user interaction and many re-posts, and at least few users joined because of it. - The hashrate is currently quite steady, at 35TH (on weekly, daily and hourly view as well) - There was an issue affecting one user, sorted out (it was a DB issue following some changes, due to stale account handling) - Ocean hashrate went down recently, and right now there were no blocks found in over 99 hours! Not to worry about, just mentioning. - The lightning node reliability is acceptable, but not perfect. The payment from Ocean fails occasionally, and outgoing payments also fail sometimes (routing error), but succeed after a few automatic retries. Occasionally the invoice can't be obtained from the LN address/wallet provider, but that's an external issue. Hashing forward!

Great deal for a Bitaxe in @Printer's EU webshop. Works great with @Zappool 😎 View quoted note →

Hey @Zappool users, here are the winners to the January Zappool Giveaway!!! *** 25000 sat: 'npub1xf7...3...6cua9j' (with 14 zaps) ** 20000 sat: 'npub1m0e...6...nzvt65' (with 14 zaps) * 15000 sat: 'npub1ryz...a...dvjvcr' (with 6 zaps) Sending the prize zaps out soon! Thanks for all the loyal users! Congratulations @Cowboy Bill @Moe @obnoxiousiguana ! Details. There were 8 users (npubs) with at least 3 zaps in the period Jan 16 -- 31. Today the two lowest amount zaps were 18 and 38 sats (note: there was one with 35 but it's failing, still retrying). Sorting the npubs by their 38th character gave the above winners. View quoted note →

Checking the WINNERS soon!!!

When I feel depressed that millions of home miners haven't discovered Zappool yet, I look at the 1 month chart -- the trend is not bad! Homeminers of the world, unite! (or just do your thing in isolation)

Less than one day to find out the WINNERS!!! View quoted note →

LAST DAY!!! The 31st is still 3 days away, but if you don't have any zaps, you have to start NOW to get 3 (in the next 3 days)! Or is the club closed already, gentlemen? View quoted note →

There are only FIVE days left to join the giveaway contest, and channel your miners to Zappool! Chance to win is 3:10! And yes, I'm gonna repeat this here every day! View quoted note →

I haven't had time to look at Zappool over the weekend, but it has been chugging along as it should! 😎

Zaps went out today quietly as well. Don't forget, there are still 9 days till the end of the giveaway! Looking at the Zappool hashrate in the last month, the trend is increasing 😎 However, the number of users hasn't increased much... just before an explosion, like the btc chart? 😂

Pura Vida! All zaps went out today fine! 🤙 Two stale accounts with wrong address are not attempted to be paid any more, so the two usual failures (on the dashboard) are gone. Most payments went through at first try, one only on the 8th -- LN⚡is a mistery! (I will increase the number max tries). Today there were 8 payouts -- 7 zaps and a plain LN. No new users joined in the last period, but that time will come! I can polish the infrastructure without big stress. I've probably saturated my primary Nostr reach, I need to think of new approaches for spreading the word.

If we were to evaluate the WINNERS today, there would be only 6 users who qualify. Plenty of chances for you to enter the shuffle as well! View quoted note →

ZAPPOOL GIVEAWAY! Huge prize, free satoshis! To celebrate the Zappool Users, the working Zaps, the 55+ksat processed, the year 2026, the snow in Europe, and whatever else, ZAPPOOL IS GIVING AWAY 60000 sats to THREE randomly selected lucky users (25k, 20k and 15k prize)! Winners will be selected from among the users who had AT LEAST 3 PAYOUT ZAPS in the period 16-31 January. Please repost/boost this post so it reaches more people! (you don't have to, but please do, even if decreases your chance). Winners will be selected randomly (details given below). Continue home-mining, keep zapping, and spread the word!

As some of you noticed, the payouts yesterday were much lower than in the previous days; some of you did not get a payout at all (below 5 sats Zappool accumulates). This is due to the irregularity of blocks found by Ocean. As visible below, between Jan 1 and 4 there were unusually many, 17 blocks, but on between Jan 5 and 7 only 3 blocks. This is 4.25 per day vs 1 per day! (Info from https://ocean.xyz/dashboard). It looks like today's payouts will be slimmer as well... But please keep calm, and keep hashing, on average payouts should be fine! Zappool tries to even out fluctuation a bit, by paying out most of the estimated-but-not-yet-received payout early. However, for the estimate it uses the payout average of the last 12 blocks. If there are irregularities even when averaged over 12 blocks, payout fluctuates. I also show here the average block payout (sat/TH) from the given block: there is a large variation, from 80 to 15.

Zappool is Nostr-first, and is present on Nostr only. You will just not see me shill Zappool on x or youtube.

Total payouts done by Zappool is above 50K now. Let's 1000x it in 2026!

Zaps are implemented in Zappool, from now on payouts are done as Zaps by default! With this, Zappool is feature complete, so I declared it v1.0 live version. Zaps are shown in most Nostr clients; e.g.

Zappool's Zap Statistics

View zap statistics for Zappool on Nostr

(The zaps are to npubs, not a post, that's why not all clients show them). If you don't want the Zap, only the lightning payment, you can prefix your npub by "NOLN:" (nostr lightning), e.g. "NOLN:npub17qt0gf99uxe3n3aa8nj93hspe0x3vfn7wwmv42adfc96y8g8ngcqpakg7l". See https://zappool.org/faq.html#can-i-get-paid-to-my-nostr-account-without-the-zap-event . Sometimes I sit back and think about how wonderful is all the tech on which Zappool is built upon: A crazy guy had the idea to reverse-engineer a mining chip, and build an open source miner hardware, just for fun. Joined by another crazy guy (across the ocean) they did it: Bitaxe was born, now produced by many companies by hundreds of thousands. Another crazy crazy guy created a mining pool that is permissionless: Ocean pool was born, now with more than 20 exahash of power. And there is the whole Nostr world, and the whole Lightning ecosystem. And all based on bitcoin. Whose genesis block was created exactly 17 years ago (well, tomorrow).

2026 is gonna be full of ZAPS!

Total payment amounts added to the dashboard, and ... ... it turns out Zappool is losing money 🙃 32247 sats paid out to you guys, 31352 received from Ocean that's a net negative of 895 sats. Why? Because @OCEAN pays later, and always owes 1-2 days worth of rewards.

Looks like @Coinos having some problem right now, some payments failed today, sorry about that...