Quote from: thesnat21 on August 06, 2018, 06:40:29 PM

Quote from: bible_pay on August 06, 2018, 05:10:30 PM

With the recent slump in price, I'm starting to look at ways of popularizing BiblePay.

I'm thinking it might be to our benefit to make it easier to get started as a researcher (for cancer mining) and easier to mine BiblePay.

We could consider removing the team requirement (IE you do not have to be in Team BiblePay for PODC payments); that would potentially open us up to the entire boinc network of World Community Grid and Rosetta researchers who are apprehensive about changing their team. They would still of course need to associate their CPID with our wallet, but they would receive PODC payments without being on our team.

The other idea is making us easier to heat mine. We could potentially allow heat mining for any CPID that is successfully associated with a public key (IE the researcher has successfully sent a burn transaction and is associated with one public key address already). This would make it easier to heat mine as then only one step is required and the user does not need to wait until being in a superblock. It would also make it easier on some people financially to get started.

We may also consider voting for a lower BBP-per-rac requirement, but in my opinion its a little early for that.

Heat mining is owned by a few players currently.
CPID: 6d3cf73125be19efe95f073575990d70 count: 24(11% of total) Reward: 11720 Avg Time: 6.2611111111111
CPID: 684b644e09134455f34639d65bea3851 count: 18(8% of total) Reward: 8753 Avg Time: 7.9842592592593
CPID: 8aee6972dd6958234c4d813978e2ee20 count: 13(6% of total) Reward: 6403 Avg Time: 4.6294871794872
CPID: 373e215c0c0d3df1908ebf607a966cb8 count: 12(5% of total) Reward: 5849 Avg Time: 13.330555555556
CPID: e37d18242f0467a0694bb4fe98a7377c count: 12(5% of total) Reward: 5781 Avg Time: 13.245833333333
CPID: 1df2bd274f38f6e1956445a928180443 count: 11(5% of total) Reward: 5286 Avg Time: 7.7757575757576
CPID: bdaea08ab3f1971aacb9ba4bc2171953 count: 11(5% of total) Reward: 5380 Avg Time: 4.7

#1 cycles up and down the list a bit, he had 25/12% earlier today

Also pools seem to be out of favor:
Pool Results
PurePool : 38 (18%) 18525
BBP Pool : 22 (10%) 10756
Solo Mining : 148 (71%) 72037

(these stats are from the last 207 blocks)

I like the idea of opening things up a bit. The question is which path, and realizing the dilution of the current rewards further.
Though Ideally the price would go up with adoption to help offset it.

Thanks for the stats!

Yeah I think Solo Mining is organically high because active distinct pool CPIDs (IE active pool heat miners) probably only make up 28% of our distinct CPID list - and with the rule in the core that tries to reward distinct CPIDs, solo miners who are lucky are receiving blocks. But its worth considering opening that up to anyone with a valid CPID with RAC, instead of a biblepay CPID with magnitude (for heat mining). We have to be careful not to compromise on security.

Thats why I think considering the team removal would be the lower hanging fruit.

Ive always considered a wallet that is plug and play, like an iphone. We can consider building a plug & play biblepay PODC client.