Feasibility of a Nockchain Mining Pool?

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Hey all — curious if anyone’s explored (or considered) building a mining pool for Nockchain.

Given Nock’s determinism and compactness, it seems possible to define a shareable PoW function that’s verifiable across nodes. But there are open questions:

  • Has anyone experimented with pooling or distributing Nock-based work units?
  • Is there a standard or convention for share difficulty validation?
  • Would the pool be native Hoon, or Rust-backed with Nock evaluation?
  • What would “work” look like in a clean, functional mining loop?

Mainly just trying to gauge interest and gather technical opinions before jumping into implementation.

Thoughts?

— Jorge / OIEIEIO

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we (SWPS) have indeed built one and are quite close to launch! you can sign up for updates here https://nockpool.com/

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There are:
https://drpool.io/ - no any single block so far.
h9.com - I believe there is no blocks found also.
The problem is not the lack of pools, but the policy of the developers of this blockchain… If you’re a mere mortal, you won’t be able to find the block. No way. With no publicly available software at the moment.

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h9 has found many blocks now and has a significant share of the overall network proof rate.

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Yes, I noticed that. Will see where this goes.

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But the question still remains open: If it is impossible to find a single block with official software, then how did these guys get everything working?

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It’s not impossible, as people have demonstrated. However, adding in some of your own optimizations or joining a pool to aggregate hash rate helps win more blocks.

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Which people demonstrated this, where? I would love to see such a demonstration…

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Just join the pool, they have their own miner binary which has their own optimization in it and runs on their pool.