Hi all.
I've opened discussion of the possibility of altering the solo pool mining algorithm to a mixed solo/shared alternative. I've been approached to help build out a pool with 50% solo and 50% shared (minus pool fee). However it occurred to me this could be made configurable, where you choose what percentage you mine solo. For example, by default it would default to 50/50, but you could choose to still mine 100% solo, or 0% solo. If you choose 100% solo you would receive no block reward unless you are the block solver. Conversely if you choose 0% solo, you would share in any blocks solved amongst people who choose to share. It would be as simple as setting your password field to the percentage chosen and have a default value if no password is set.
I started a poll regarding mixed mining here:
https://twitter.com/ckpooldev/status/1621753619463933953Note that I've made no commitment to create such a pool at this time, but I may be convinced to do so if there is overwhelming support.
This sounds like a great idea to me.
I like the concept of solo mining a block at ck-pool, and also like the idea of sharing some of BTC with fellow solo miners if I get lucky.
On the other side, it's also nice to get some sats when someone else in the pool found a block.
Win/win in my mind. Great proposal.