Pool Or Block Explorer?
I think there is no need for a new pool. So I want to ask here should I run the pool or try to set up a block explorer?
pls let me know
paduser
I'd vote for a good block explorer. The old one is offline.
a blockexplorer with mysql backend and everything indexed is still simpler than a design flawless pool
the hardest thing for the pool is to figure out a way to scale by user load without producing too much costs for ddos protection services. if this challenge has been accomplished the next is to find a fair way to distribute the mined coins.
in terms of fair i think of a cheat proof method to verify how many tb plots are actually used for mining by a miner.
this is even harder than ddos cause its nothing already coded which you can simply buy and integrate.
also fair means if an average miner runs 10 tb plots he should get 1/10th of someone mining with 100tb and 1/10th of someone running 1pb and so on.
the tricky part starts to make sure that nobody stops to mine with all tb which once existed for this account during the verification process (broken/removed hdds).
i have tried to design processes for verification of the used tb but this would mean to rely on encrypted connections between the pool and miner and also to provide only binary encrypted miners to the miners.
i am not sure if this is a option in crypto.
i stay with solo and maybe private pools if diff raises too high.
the simplest private pools can be done by simple trust between the members that they constantly mine with their tb.
rewards are then splitted based on used tb.
maybe a feature for the next gen of pool plots may be some count of the nonce analysed in a scanned plotfile.
i am not sure if this can get somehow included into the nonce content but i think this is the only way for fair distribution on pools.
