Zappool

Daily sats from your Bitaxe!

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npub17qt0gf99uxe3n3aa8nj93hspe0x3vfn7wwmv42adfc96y8g8ngcqpakg7l

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nprofile1qqs0q9h5yjj7rvcec77neezcmcquhngkyel88dk24wk5uzazr5re5vqpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytngw5q3vamnwvaz7tmzd96xxmmfdejhytnnda3kjctvkmdl8l

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npub17qt0gf99uxe3n3aa8nj93hspe0x3vfn7wwmv42adfc96y8g8ngcqpakg7l

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2026-06-16 16:12:34 UTC

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This doesn't consider the mining reward (assuming pooled mining, e.g. through zappool) at all, correct?
Or, for solo mining, a more fair comparison would take into account the chance to find a block, which is proportional to the hash power. So total cost per hashpower would be a also relevant.

2026-06-10 22:06:15 UTC

Zappool is not the only pool with Nostr-integration any more 😎
Great job #Hydrapool !
#nevent1q…wdr0

2026-06-10 07:05:59 UTC

BtcPrague is cool, but the 'side' events rock even more!
@nprofile…2za5

2026-06-05 13:42:55 UTC

Next week Zappool presentation at @npub16u0…qpwk Prague!
https://image.nostr.build/648819a4c041a64507836c4c99f9eb453d2cd6464a318400631c3a5961bee85c.png

2026-06-03 12:10:37 UTC

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It was a low-hanging-fruit, on my list for a long time.
It was prompted by the fact that I will present Zappool next week at Freedom Tech Summit @@npub16u0…qpwk 😎

2026-06-03 09:30:51 UTC

The Zappool dashboard got a style
https://dashboard.zappool.org
https://image.nostr.build/63d79d7a3d372bc3823f177d317a32035cc3d8467c8d53a179b112ec8813a00e.png

2026-06-01 12:21:04 UTC

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I like the permissionless solution! (no email or login)

2026-06-01 11:43:27 UTC

The Proxy Pool idea has been floating around for a while. But are there any other working Proxy Pools besides Zappool?

2026-05-13 15:13:14 UTC

Tick-tock-next-block... blocks are coming, zaps are going! @npub17qt…kg7l

2026-04-22 21:25:09 UTC

Playing the channel manager on the Lightning node, payment reliability improved!
https://image.nostr.build/985bb90fc97fe504bb4923a8cc269851f6ed37cebd3cb7fce0c76533f17129e8.png

2026-04-21 06:16:36 UTC

How come there are no mining difficulty bets (future contracts) on Polymarket?

2026-03-12 09:57:19 UTC

For Zappool, I have an idea for a hybrid mode: set an arbitrary percentage, and some work goes to pooled mining, some to solo. So there's a probability for you to hit the jackpot (full block reward, but lower chance), but also get some small instant rewards.
#nevent1q…mscj

2026-03-12 09:54:55 UTC

Parasite Pool splits the block reward: 1 btc goes to the one who found it, the rest is distributed as a pool. It's nice that the 1 btc goes non-custodially directly to the lucky user (in the coinbase).
https://image.nostr.build/770b79fa2f92a4f5e603cd73b529b9361cc382708d1a7f834c7ca6106ed70579.png
https://parasite.space/
https://mempool.space/tx/bde457e06ce61995c35ada890badefd74757f7031ae2a39999ba282814042ee2

2026-03-11 11:45:36 UTC

Another piece in the pool puzzle...
#nevent1q…l87f

2026-03-11 06:44:58 UTC

Zappool had an outage, fixed, and apologies!
The reason was my human error (not technical, late hosting payment 🥺).
Fixed, restarted, hashrate came back, all seems fine.
There was no payout yesterday, as the outage started just before payout time.
If a miner has a second backup pool configured, and the primary becomes unavailable, it will auto-switch to the secondary, and eventually it will switch back to the primary if available again.
I need to improve monitoring.
https://image.nostr.build/634acf1cc3f6e548d2561303bb7aedc05b3eb998729eacdc7dd8137c3e519071.png

2026-02-26 12:08:08 UTC

A long-awaited small development: you can use Nostr Login on the dashboard!
If you log in (with the account used for mining), you can filter for your own hashrate (web extension only).
https://dashboard.zappool.org/
https://image.nostr.build/7a6ed3a2648b5a047b913f16db4714b69e92740c2c678df8ed3bb7ee3caf0486.png

2026-02-24 04:26:13 UTC

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Just seen this from @nprofile…xxx2, confirms very much the take on Ocean.
#nevent1q…ac4z

2026-02-23 16:14:06 UTC

I expect BIP110 to degenerate into an ugly fight (and fail spectacularly), and I'd like to keep Zappool far from the fan that will get hit by catshit.
#nevent1q…ynrs

2026-02-23 16:12:44 UTC

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Noted and agreed.
Ocean was selected because of technical reasons -- easy way to do own template and add hooks, lightning payments -- and bc it's fully permissionless. But yeah, even though Zappool uses its own template, and most Ocean blocks are special template not Ocean's own, it's not possible to detach from Ocean's strong affiliation with filtering and Knots and Luke Dashjr. And BIP110 lately. It would be much better if Zappool didn't have to deal with that shit.
Braiins pool (formerly Slush) is nice. It doesn't allow for own template, and talk is that they use Antpool template. They have LN, and you can reg with an email only (I think). It would be nice to have Braiins as an option for pool backend.
It would need a custom stratumv1 proxy and the Braiins interfacing. I will put it on the roadmap.
I expect BIP110 to degenerate into an ugly fight (and fail spectacularly), and I'd like to keep Zappool far from the fan that will get hit by catshit.

2026-02-20 12:24:00 UTC

Cypherpunk Mining Stack
The summary an openclaw bot came up with when asked to review and summarize Zappol.org 😎🔥

2026-02-13 10:03:29 UTC

Where do you buy your bitaxes? There's https://www.gobrrr.me/ , quite hot
What's event hotter that @npub1l5p…4q0n has given #Zappool a try! 🔥
Strong recommend!

2026-02-10 07:38:41 UTC

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That's awesome! What is considered optimal diff, what avg work duration / frequency?
Unfortunately @nprofile…vu4w uses fixed 128k diff, which is not optimal for a Bitaxe, it takes 2-30 minutes...

2026-02-07 08:23:50 UTC

Due to the 3 days without blocks on Ocean, in the last two days there were hardly any payouts (one). For reasons not entirely clear, an Ocean block commits roughly the same regardless if it happens after 5 minutes or after 3 days of the previous one. As a result, the actual committed amount will be lower than what Zappool has estimated -- and paid out in advance. It takes 1-2 days to even out, and pay again.
> - Ocean hashrate went down recently, and right now there were no blocks found in over 99 hours! Not to worry about, just mentioning.
@npub1qtv…7dze
#nevent1q…ma6h

2026-02-03 12:18:45 UTC

Zappool status update:
- The 60ksat giveaway was completed all right! It hasn't made a huge splash, but it got user interaction and many re-posts, and at least few users joined because of it.
- The hashrate is currently quite steady, at 35TH (on weekly, daily and hourly view as well)
- There was an issue affecting one user, sorted out (it was a DB issue following some changes, due to stale account handling)
- Ocean hashrate went down recently, and right now there were no blocks found in over 99 hours! Not to worry about, just mentioning.
- The lightning node reliability is acceptable, but not perfect. The payment from Ocean fails occasionally, and outgoing payments also fail sometimes (routing error), but succeed after a few automatic retries. Occasionally the invoice can't be obtained from the LN address/wallet provider, but that's an external issue.
Hashing forward!

2026-02-02 01:44:53 UTC

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This made us into the 3rd daily top zappers 😎
#nevent1q…5y9n

2026-02-01 15:53:00 UTC

Great deal for a Bitaxe in @nprofile…gmry's EU webshop. Works great with @nprofile…0j52 😎
#nevent1q…6zzg

2026-02-01 07:04:53 UTC

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All prizes sent out! Enjoy!
https://image.nostr.build/5f3eece4b64d1121f1a156de962c4881424a6c0dcc36803ffd703dd542ca619f.png

2026-01-31 15:11:23 UTC

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Sent 2nd prize to @npub1m0e…vt65 !
I had an issue with sending 1st and 3rd though, apparently both users have a Coinos.io wallet @npub1w27…z70r , which appears to be unavailable right now (their payment today also failed with timeout).
Sorry about this. I will retry sending @npub1xf7…ua9j @npub1ryz…jvcr .
https://image.nostr.build/35cce00e6997cee729b090fb3359fc55c9995db038ab06b652f3a8a619177276.png

2026-01-31 15:03:01 UTC

Hey @Zappool users, here are the winners to the January Zappool Giveaway!!!
*** 25000 sat: 'npub1xf7...3...6cua9j' (with 14 zaps)
** 20000 sat: 'npub1m0e...6...nzvt65' (with 14 zaps)
* 15000 sat: 'npub1ryz...a...dvjvcr' (with 6 zaps)
Sending the prize zaps out soon!
Thanks for all the loyal users!
Congratulations @npub1xf7…ua9j @npub1m0e…vt65 @npub1ryz…jvcr !
Details. There were 8 users (npubs) with at least 3 zaps in the period Jan 16 -- 31.
Today the two lowest amount zaps were 18 and 38 sats (note: there was one with 35 but it's failing, still retrying).
Sorting the npubs by their 38th character gave the above winners.
#nevent1q…zl0y

2026-01-31 14:25:49 UTC

Checking the WINNERS soon!!!

2026-01-30 23:51:12 UTC

When I feel depressed that millions of home miners haven't discovered Zappool yet, I look at the 1 month chart -- the trend is not bad!
Homeminers of the world, unite! (or just do your thing in isolation)
https://image.nostr.build/dac668a57c2aeb1731dd34a3f6151a10f5bc16e8804b0cd863a822443b57fc83.png

2026-01-30 14:44:41 UTC

Less than one day to find out the WINNERS!!!
#nevent1q…zhkt

2026-01-28 12:56:26 UTC

LAST DAY!!!
The 31st is still 3 days away, but if you don't have any zaps, you have to start NOW to get 3 (in the next 3 days)!
Or is the club closed already, gentlemen?
#nevent1q…zhkt

2026-01-27 10:11:11 UTC

There are only FIVE days left to join the giveaway contest, and channel your miners to Zappool! Chance to win is 3:10! And yes, I'm gonna repeat this here every day!
#nevent1q…2qlm

2026-01-26 13:21:15 UTC

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I keep hearing cool stuff about HashWatcher app.
It would be nice if it was usable on GrapheneOS without Google login! (currently this keeps me away)

2026-01-26 13:01:33 UTC

I haven't had time to look at Zappool over the weekend, but it has been chugging along as it should! 😎

2026-01-22 13:22:21 UTC

Zaps went out today quietly as well.
Don't forget, there are still 9 days till the end of the giveaway!
Looking at the Zappool hashrate in the last month, the trend is increasing 😎 However, the number of users hasn't increased much... just before an explosion, like the btc chart? 😂
https://image.nostr.build/6bc7be55a53e2107527235813fecfe0ac275a1b7f55f65c354defd805563a3f1.png

2026-01-20 14:08:21 UTC

Pura Vida! All zaps went out today fine! 🤙
Two stale accounts with wrong address are not attempted to be paid any more, so the two usual failures (on the dashboard) are gone.
Most payments went through at first try, one only on the 8th -- LN⚡is a mistery! (I will increase the number max tries).
Today there were 8 payouts -- 7 zaps and a plain LN.
No new users joined in the last period, but that time will come! I can polish the infrastructure without big stress. I've probably saturated my primary Nostr reach, I need to think of new approaches for spreading the word.

2026-01-20 07:04:30 UTC

If we were to evaluate the WINNERS today, there would be only 6 users who qualify. Plenty of chances for you to enter the shuffle as well!
#nevent1q…6p5k

2026-01-20 07:01:06 UTC

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It's possible to use a tiny homeminer directly with Ocean, but you have to run your own Datum server (maybe this is not a must), and you have to run your own Bolt12-capable lightning node for LN payouts. Not impossible, but quite a friction, definitely not for a causual Bitaxe user.
Zappool solves this, with Nostr integration: you just enter your npub as miner ID (and zappool pool server), and starting the next day, you get daily payouts as zaps to your Nostr account.
Zappool is a proxy pool to Ocean, and doesn't take a cut (on top of Ocean's fee).

2026-01-19 22:56:43 UTC

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If you use Zappool.org (and indirectly Ocean), you can get daily zaps from your Bitforge miner

2026-01-19 12:11:24 UTC

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mineshop.eu has a sale on avalonnanoo right now (if eu is closer to you)

2026-01-17 06:26:54 UTC

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If you don't have a Bitaxe, you still have plenty of time to buy one and get zaps from it until Jan 31! 😎
Some shops: https://powermining.io @npub1l5p…4q0n @npub1qvw…2h4p @npub1k8s…6y88 https://d-central.tech https://bitronics.store

2026-01-16 20:06:26 UTC

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Check out Zappool.org , there you even get daily zaps with your earnings! Zaps from your Bitaxe, how cool is that?

2026-01-16 15:00:00 UTC

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Wow, that makes two mining pools where you can use your npub as ID!
With Zappool.org, you will get daily ZAPS with your rewards if you do!

2026-01-15 12:36:23 UTC

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Winners will be selected randomly with equal chance, but reproducibly.
The exact rule:
Take all the npubs of users who had 3 or more zaps during the period;
take the second smallest zap that occured on the last day of the period, call it N (on Jan 31).
Sort the npubs by the Nth character.
Take the first 3 (in case of tie, look at next char).
Zap them 25000, 20000 and 15000 respectively.
Rules may change in case of unforseen details.

2026-01-15 12:35:44 UTC

ZAPPOOL GIVEAWAY! Huge prize, free satoshis!
https://blossom.primal.net/72fc007e069f95a0cf4d59603dc5e7ddd21a4b3367709c29581f313c56f28a38.jpg
To celebrate the Zappool Users, the working Zaps, the 55+ksat processed, the year 2026, the snow in Europe, and whatever else,
ZAPPOOL IS GIVING AWAY 60000 sats to THREE randomly selected lucky users (25k, 20k and 15k prize)!
Winners will be selected from among the users who had AT LEAST 3 PAYOUT ZAPS in the period 16-31 January.
Please repost/boost this post so it reaches more people! (you don't have to, but please do, even if decreases your chance).
Winners will be selected randomly (details given below).
Continue home-mining, keep zapping, and spread the word!

2026-01-09 09:30:01 UTC

As some of you noticed, the payouts yesterday were much lower than in the previous days; some of you did not get a payout at all (below 5 sats Zappool accumulates). This is due to the irregularity of blocks found by Ocean.
As visible below, between Jan 1 and 4 there were unusually many, 17 blocks, but on between Jan 5 and 7 only 3 blocks. This is 4.25 per day vs 1 per day! (Info from https://ocean.xyz/dashboard).
It looks like today's payouts will be slimmer as well... But please keep calm, and keep hashing, on average payouts should be fine!
Zappool tries to even out fluctuation a bit, by paying out most of the estimated-but-not-yet-received payout early. However, for the estimate it uses the payout average of the last 12 blocks. If there are irregularities even when averaged over 12 blocks, payout fluctuates. I also show here the average block payout (sat/TH) from the given block: there is a large variation, from 80 to 15.
https://image.nostr.build/c2a475bca9753df94785ec2355f935eb7cdc6e930497653400931440e2bce22c.png
https://image.nostr.build/7e21ed7f62e6ac808ab52313e32fc96a8bf9837948dfa218a0f198a7c1b5f068.png

2026-01-06 14:14:51 UTC

Zappool is Nostr-first, and is present on Nostr only. You will just not see me shill Zappool on x or youtube.

2026-01-05 14:12:42 UTC

Total payouts done by Zappool is above 50K now. Let's 1000x it in 2026!
https://blossom.primal.net/ab539e5a74b7fe2af0f4dab99924b8610dbae4cbd891ea79eb7dcdf3cb89eac6.png

2026-01-05 13:51:42 UTC

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Great work! For pooled home mining it may be worth checking out https://zappool.org -- nostr integrated and permissionless. Might be a good companion for bitaxes sold.

2026-01-04 19:55:44 UTC

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I wouldn't want to force any policy on Zappool users, but if nostr app-specific user settings are implemented, it's possible to have a user setting (take part in block parties or not).

2026-01-04 19:53:47 UTC

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Interesting idea. I've been thinking about block parties before, but I don't have much first-hand experience, I need to find out more.

2026-01-02 13:12:45 UTC

Zaps are implemented in Zappool, from now on payouts are done as Zaps by default!
With this, Zappool is feature complete, so I declared it v1.0 live version.
Zaps are shown in most Nostr clients; e.g. https://www.fatzaps.com/npub17qt0gf99uxe3n3aa8nj93hspe0x3vfn7wwmv42adfc96y8g8ngcqpakg7l (The zaps are to npubs, not a post, that's why not all clients show them).
If you don't want the Zap, only the lightning payment, you can prefix your npub by "NOLN:" (nostr lightning),
e.g. "NOLN:npub17qt0gf99uxe3n3aa8nj93hspe0x3vfn7wwmv42adfc96y8g8ngcqpakg7l".
See https://zappool.org/faq.html#can-i-get-paid-to-my-nostr-account-without-the-zap-event .
Sometimes I sit back and think about how wonderful is all the tech on which Zappool is built upon:
A crazy guy had the idea to reverse-engineer a mining chip, and build an open source miner hardware, just for fun. Joined by another crazy guy (across the ocean) they did it: Bitaxe was born, now produced by many companies by hundreds of thousands.
Another crazy crazy guy created a mining pool that is permissionless: Ocean pool was born, now with more than 20 exahash of power.
And there is the whole Nostr world, and the whole Lightning ecosystem.
And all based on bitcoin.
Whose genesis block was created exactly 17 years ago (well, tomorrow).

2026-01-01 16:21:11 UTC

2026 is gonna be full of ZAPS!

2025-12-25 13:27:51 UTC

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Not to worry about that one: that's the difference between what has been rewarded by Ocean and what has been actually paid out. So even if all zappool users disappear at once, those few sats will be paid out by Ocean in a few days.
Now that Zappool is working quite stable, my task is to make some publicity and attract more users. I want to finish real ZAPs (not only LN payment, but Nostr-visible zap), and it is working already in my test environment, so I will turn it on soon!

2025-12-08 10:28:32 UTC

Total payment amounts added to the dashboard, and ...
... it turns out Zappool is losing money 🙃
32247 sats paid out to you guys, 31352 received from Ocean
that's a net negative of 895 sats.
Why? Because @nprofile…fd7j pays later, and always owes 1-2 days worth of rewards.
https://blossom.primal.net/1aad39c81076bc5e78542fa238decc3111fd71b41debebd66545cf18ffca278e.png

2025-11-19 07:39:36 UTC

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This cloudflare dependency is insance....
Anyway, nature has healed itself since.

2025-11-18 12:12:42 UTC

Looks like @npub1w27…z70r having some problem right now, some payments failed today, sorry about that...
https://image.nostr.build/3843242233fc64ac7bf86987acc38902894eca5d85712f64c10709fbd8c3394a.png

2025-11-15 20:41:45 UTC

The Hash Value is now added to the dashboard!
Hash value is the average earning in satoshis, generated by a 1 TH/s mining capacity over the period of one day.
https://image.nostr.build/129b872262833ab80f5160d4113b2e0da1f06e2c1690b41ca0e8c743a0f2bb0c.jpg
The value in the Zappool dashboard is computed from the total earnings of Zappool miners and their total hashrate, from the last 7-day period.
It is currently 37-38 satoshis, so a 1 TH/s Bitaxe maked that much in one day on average.

2025-11-14 09:45:06 UTC

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Could you try http://15.235.3.234/ ?
Maybe you are IPv6 only? Just a guess.
It would be nice to find out, thanks for the help.

2025-11-14 07:13:11 UTC

Everything about Zappool in one picture
https://blossom.primal.net/3932f6be65d1e06835b87f5b058cc1ea89932cdc5b7c861d62083eb46e253507.png

2025-11-11 22:51:47 UTC

Hello Homeminers!
Get daily sats from your Bitaxe with Zappool.org!
#Bitaxe #Zappool #proxy-pool