There are only FIVE days left to join the giveaway contest, and channel your miners to Zappool! Chance to win is 3:10! And yes, I'm gonna repeat this here every day!
Zaps went out today quietly as well. Don't forget, there are still 9 days till the end of the giveaway!
Looking at the Zappool hashrate in the last month, the trend is increasing π However, the number of users hasn't increased much... just before an explosion, like the btc chart? π
Pura Vida! All zaps went out today fine! π€ Two stale accounts with wrong address are not attempted to be paid any more, so the two usual failures (on the dashboard) are gone. Most payments went through at first try, one only on the 8th -- LNβ‘is a mistery! (I will increase the number max tries). Today there were 8 payouts -- 7 zaps and a plain LN. No new users joined in the last period, but that time will come! I can polish the infrastructure without big stress. I've probably saturated my primary Nostr reach, I need to think of new approaches for spreading the word.
It's possible to use a tiny homeminer directly with Ocean, but you have to run your own Datum server (maybe this is not a must), and you have to run your own Bolt12-capable lightning node for LN payouts. Not impossible, but quite a friction, definitely not for a causual Bitaxe user. Zappool solves this, with Nostr integration: you just enter your npub as miner ID (and zappool pool server), and starting the next day, you get daily payouts as zaps to your Nostr account. Zappool is a proxy pool to Ocean, and doesn't take a cut (on top of Ocean's fee).