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Good points and Ive thought about this a lot.
Short answer: the solo pool stays 0% fee as long as I can keep it that way.
The whole point of Blitzpool's solo mode is to give home miners a real alternative to running their own node stack — without making them give up anything from the block reward. If you finally hit a block after months of lottery-ticket mining, I don't want to skim from that. That's the deal I want to offer.
Financing comes from two sides:
- Donations from the community
- Margin on MiningRigRentals hashrate rented through the pool (pay with Lightning, we take a small cut there)
Is that bulletproof forever? No, I won't pretend it is. If it genuinely becomes unsustainable I'll be transparent about it before changing anything — not quietly flip a switch.
The PPLNS pool (coming) will have a 1% fee. That's where a fee actually makes sense: continuous payouts, more infrastructure load, steady revenue (if I can ever really reach that level haha). Solo mining is lottery mining — one big payout, rarely. Taking a fee on that feels wrong to me.
I hear the "just start with a fee, use better tech to attract miners" argument, and it's pragmatic. But honestly — there are already plenty of pools charging fees. What's missing is a no-fee SV2 solo option that isn't run by a VC-backed company. That's the gap I want to fill, even if it's harder to sustain.
Honestly: if you can run the stack yourself, do it. That's the most sovereign setup and the repo is public for that reason. I always encourage people to run their own node and pool at home
What we want do is push SV2 and switch away from the completly outdated, insecure and manipulable SV1 protocol and show the big guys how to do it better.
Is running SV1 using public pool from my own node on start9 still have the security problems ? my thought was since there is no 'man in the middle' its not a problem. What would be the benefit of updating my stack in this situation ? Thanks!
This is important for the long term, maybe it's better to just start with the fee and use the "better tech" speech to attract miners.