What is Zappool?

Zappool is

a mining pool

supporting Bitaxes and other small homeminers,

with daily payouts,

integrated with Nostr & cashu,

using Ocean as an upstream pool (proxypool & motherpool).

Use your Bitaxe to generate daily sats, ready for zapping!

Why?

Traditionally Bitaxes are used in solo mode, which means most users don't get any earnings from them (but who is lucky can get a huge win). Pooled mining can be more complicated to set up, and since the rewards are quite small, may not worth the effort.

Zaps on Nostr are a perfect use case for the mined sats, and if the setup is easy, your Bitaxe becomes a zap mine!

Other Goals

• Help popularize Nostr and Bitaxe

• Push for Zappool features to end up in other/upstream pools

• Set an example, and help others to run proxy pools

• Make a step towards fully permissionless, non-custodial, non-proxy mining pool -- see Hashpool

• Ultimately, Help miner decentralization