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.
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.
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?
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.