new type of pool - solo group pool - Does this work ?

[zubrzed]

🧠 System Name:
SOLO GROUP POOL – Tiered Rewards with Cooldown Protection

🪓 TIER STRUCTURE
Tier   Hashrate Range   Block Reward   Cooldown After Block Found
🟫 Bronze   1 GH/s to 15 TH/s   15 tokens   30 minutes
🪙 Silver   15 TH/s to 1 PH/s   30 tokens   2 hours
🥇 Gold   1 PH/s to 20 PH/s   50 tokens   5 hours

⚙️ HOW IT WORKS
A miner connects to the pool → system automatically measures their real-time hashrate.

Based on their performance, they are assigned to a reward tier:

Bronze: small/home setups

Silver: semi-professional miners

Gold: large-scale farms

If the miner finds a block, they receive:

a fixed token reward based on their tier,

and are placed into a cooldown period.

🔒 COOLDOWN = WHALE PROTECTION
During the cooldown, the miner cannot receive another reward, even if they find more blocks.

The pool may:

accept the block but skip the reward,

or reduce it to 0, optionally still giving them a transaction fee.

This prevents large miners (Gold tier) from farming rewards repeatedly throughout the day.

✅ WHY THIS MODEL WORKS
🔄 Fair play for all miners – from home rigs to big operations.

🚫 Anti-whale protection via enforced cooldowns.

🔥 Incentivizes miners to scale up, but without overwhelming others.

📊 Gamified system – miners can track their tier and cooldown status.

🧠 Fully transparent – community can clearly understand reward mechanics.

🧱 TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION
The pool backend monitors:

each wallet’s average hashrate

last time a reward was paid

When a block is found:

system checks current hashrate → assigns a tier

checks cooldown:

if cooldown is active → no payout

if cooldown is expired → full reward is paid

logs timestamp of last reward

All activity is stored in a PostgreSQL database, with Redis used for real-time performance tracking.

🔚 Summary (for website, whitepaper, or pitch deck):
Our solo mining platform categorizes miners into performance-based tiers (Bronze, Silver, Gold), each with a fixed block reward and cooldown period. This ensures fair token distribution, protects against dominance by large farms, and encourages balanced network participation.

Can this work ? Or it is out of game ?

[NotFuzzyWarm]

nothing new aside from the tokens part. Many years ago -ck and someone else both ran pretty much the same setup tho they didn't call it a 'solo' group pool. I forget what they called it but they did the same thing with payouts on a rotating sliding scale. So - what is the pool fee? How/when are tokens cashed out?

Is everyone paid (aside from folks on cool down) when a block is found? If that is the case I would hardly call it a 'solo' pool.

btw: Both those pools I mentioned are gone now due to lack of interest.

[zubrzed]

nothing new aside from the tokens part. Many years ago -ck and someone else both ran pretty much the same setup tho they didn't call it a 'solo' group pool. I forget what they called it but they did the same thing with payouts on a rotating sliding scale. So - what is the pool fee? How/when are tokens cashed out?

Is everyone paid (aside from folks on cool down) when a block is found? If that is the case I would hardly call it a 'solo' pool.

btw: Both those pools I mentioned are gone now due to lack of interest.
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Thanks for answer - like fee could be minimal, like 1 percent or so, tokens would be cashed out when some point reach it.
Anyways at least I know there was something similar, so I was just kinda curious how to avoid big whales running onto the solo pool and taking all the rewards with their BIG hash power

[NotFuzzyWarm]

In a true solo 'pool' it does not matter what size miners are.
The term 'solo pool' is a misnomer: it is NOT a pool in the usual sense. In a pool, the block rewards are distributed among all users. What -ck (and Kano) are running is NOT a pool, it is a service that just provides the well connected back end doing all of the work generation and block found flag distribution for solo miners using their services.

Solo is, well, solo. One miner gets all of the reward + fees - service operator fee. A big miner may find more blocks but it makes no difference to other folks using the services that Kano and -ck provide. The odds of a user finding a block remains the same (strictly based on their hash rate) and their rewards remains the same..

Size of a miner only matters when the block reward is shared in a pool. In that case, yes big miners can take a large % of the rewards while others in the pool get far less. Regardless of how you finagle the payouts, if rewards are being shared then what you are running is a pool and is not solo mining. Period.