As for “it simplifies accounting”, I think you’re wayyyyy overthinking the complexity of accounting in a pool. It’s a really trivial Postgres DB and that’s it. Most of the complexity is to provide additional features users want like hashrate monitoring, device monitoring, etc. that obviously doesn’t change since users still want that info!

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Matt, you are playing semantics not me. > it removes an entire class of liabilities that need to be tracked. The business owner no longer needs to be concerned with unredeemed shares. This is the actual win. It simplifies life for the pool operator and reduces barriers to entry as a new mining pool. > Most of the complexity is to provide additional features users want like hashrate monitoring, device monitoring, etc. that obviously doesn’t change since users still want that info! Yes. And this is a dumb model. We can do better. View quoted note →