Well, indirecly.
I've learnt about the #hashpool project of nostr:nprofile1qqsdxpfv503a2ga3ajqxw843hws9z7302ghpj4mcmjpa6qagmp9pwrs8222jg , and I saw two avenues:
1. build a new pool from scratch, starting with small hashrates (=very long times for finding a block), and bridge the long times with a local market for hash-ehash (custodial but blinded, option to early exit via market)
2. a proxy pool, based on Ocean, with periodic payouts from Ocean. But then I realized that in this case there is not really a need for a hash market, nor for ecash in fact.
I chose to pursue 2, and pivoted my focus to a proxy pool, which is old-style custodial, but only for a day (and small user amounts). I realized there is a lot of synergy with Nostr, so I focus on that now with Zappool.
For home miners, zapping away is a perfect and fun usecase for the the small daily payouts. Miner ID being a Nostr ID also opens up some possibilites -- payout to LN address of the npub, payout as zap, donation to someone else's npub, payout as nutzap, nostr login to your bitaxe, etc.
In the long term I keep in mind hashpool as something interesting for miner decentralization. For now I want to push the Nostr-bitaxe synergy, and the proxy pool concept (I'm not aware of a working proxy pool).
#hashpool #proxy-pool #zappool
