Quote from: -ck on February 04, 2023, 01:52:27 PM

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/1621753619463933953

Note 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.

Mining on ck pool for a long time !!! You came highly recommended by your long standing in the bitcoin community .Gross 50/50. Please Ck do not lower yourself for such a gimmicky scheme. Anything that is not solo is just a gimmicky thing like FPPS vs. PPLNS vs. PPS+. The saying if it is not broke, dont fix it If it is not broke please do not fix it. Plenty of gimmicky Bitcoin pools out their with a wide variety of lame payout strategies. Only one really trusted SOLO Bitcoin pool . CK pool.

If I could vote on how you spent your time over taking the lame commission. Please focus on doing something unique with CK pool 100% solo . A new feature? New connectivity?. Another cool function for ck pool? Or? But for god sake do not dilute yourself with such a waste of time 50/50 gimmicky thing like the proposal. People hear the name CK Pool and think prestigious and widely trusted 1# Bitcoin solo pool. Would not allow another project to sully that image you have built over a very long time.

Thank you for all the work you have done for Bitcoin Community and the little miners around the globe.