A pool for a better world - would you mine there?

[noooze]

Hi All

Miners unite or miners don't care?

I was talking to a fellow miner of mine and we were talking about how happy we are, that we are only getting power from wind power.
That way we make a bit of money and add too much of a footprint on our world.

As we have our own mining pool together with a few friends, we started talking about possibilities:

What if developed our pool more, made it open to everyone and used the mining pool fee to fund projects that are designed to combat the situation the world is in?
Would miners unite or do they not care?

In my end, I would prefer a pool had a mission, other than getting the people behind rich - But I'm probably not everyone:
In my spare time I'm currently working on a system to keep algae alive in a container that can be placed out in the public ( you know: heat, cold, weather, maintenance etc is a difficult problem ) - those critters eat 200x more co2 than a tree compared to biomass and I would love to make Copenhagen co2 neutral.

All miners - what do you think? 

If there is positive feedback, I'll contact my developer and ask him to start working on a bigger setup 

[noooze]

Perhaps you guys want a bit more info - sorry have holiday brain right now 

Basically, we would have a normal pool fee to keep servers running and to pay our developer to keep it updated at all time.

But what about what is left of the mining fee?

I envision a few possibilities:

Involve the miners to help select project to help fund
Or
Setup a fund that everyone can apply to.

But that would of cause require a certain % of miners to use our pool, as you can't fund projects with love, fresh air and water 

[leowonderful]

Most people mine for profits and are penny pinchers especially about mining fees (Some people made a fee-free version of Claymore, why? Fees aren't that big anyways compared to how much you are mining). If fee isn't too big and you get some hashrate on it you may be successful.

[Tidsdilatation]

Lets say you manage you create a BIG pool. Like the biggest ETH pool there is, and you take 1%. That would be alot of money. Me personally would not mind donating 1% if i KNEW it went to a good cause. The problem is proving that its heading to the good cause and not some rich fat guy behind a keyboard.

[adaseb]

So you want to start a pool, where people mine to you for free, and you get to keep all the profits and say its to "feed the children"?

[noooze]

Sorry guys - was camping with my 2 kids and almost no signal on the free wifi there.

Kinda fun trying the real life without Netflix and news sites.


I understand your reasoning and that is also why I asked.
How do I prove I'm not a rich fat guy behind the keyboard? And how do I prove we do something good?

Do any of you have a good idea how to show this in a good way?

I was thinking about making a ledger for all to see and check up on. One idea was to do a non-profit organization that has full transparency both in what money goes in and what projects that are being worked on. That way, all that contributes can also come with suggestions to what would be a good cause.

It would be imperative that trust is built and that we all do some good for the world. No matter how we look at it, we do set an ugly footprint on the world, but we could offset it by giving our pool fees to something that actively tries to offset it.