Topic: Experimental alt-currency needs pools from start. Would you run one ? (Read 1158 times)

Well, sadly I dunno what that ginger project is (got links?) but in my case it's basically an issue of not making any claims before I am reasonably convinced I can at least make a try at doing something of use, so as to minimize embarrassment if I can not.

Current situation is best described as "lolcust is fooling around with Multicoin and I0coin code, trying to cobble together something that would be at least mildly curious"

Anyone that lived though the project ginger hype no longer believes in anything developed in secret.

You can tell us what it is or we will blindly, and possibly wrongly, assume it's not useful.

Oh noes, someone can't find where the goddamn poll button / checkbox / whatever is in this particular forum, that truly disqualifies one from experimenting with open source software, right ?


Sekkrit until I finish fooling around and experimenting (it very well might be that I abandon the idea at this point, so I don't want to get people too exited until I am reasonably certain that I can deliver something )

But you see, to even have a shot at the thing I have in mind, I would need to increase centralization somewhat, hence the desire to have pools in it from day one (EDIT: I don't want to use licensed mining, as it seems to me that it is liable to cause a PKI hell of some sort)


Well, yes, given the crazy difficulty rollercoasters that forks are prone to, I'll have to implement some changes to diff adjust rate, though I'm still undecided as to what values should I use (I'm gonna play around with that in my VM net for quite some time)

However, I'm not sure I want an asymmetric retargeting scheme a-la solidcoin's "pool safe" approach (I want to be, for lack of better term, "pool friendly", since I need to ascertain a limited degree of centralization)...  I am quite concerned about difficulty deadlocks when powerful mining pools leave, but  not so much about diff rising rapidly when they arrive... Perhaps I am wrong and I should be concerned about that, too ?

Well, I'd like to donate some pooled mining setup.
Question is if your blockchain is pool-safe(i.e. NOT like namecoin, more lilke the solidcoin chain).

Why do you need pools?  Why not just solo mine it?

What's the new functionality here? If it's something people believe in then people will setup pools.

Okay, here's the deal.

Assume that there exists a goal-driven* experimental alt-coin fork (by goal-driven, I mean that it has a stated useful and theoretically achievable goal beyond "giving its author a shitton of coins to dump when their value goes from penny to several" , namely, goal of eventually achieving functionality that would permit a particular kind of service that would be problematic to implement with any degree of decentralization via existing forks).

The architecture is largely dependent upon several (assume, say, above 5, maybe more) "pools" being present in the experimental fork's network at any given time, from the start.

The question is, are there people willing to set up and run a pool for such an experiment?

P.S.:
It doesn't have to be a massive multi-server setup, since expecting stable participation of large amount of minepower in yet-another-fork-coin (even if it strives to achieve genuine new functionality) is somewhat overly optimistic IMO.
Still, a decent multi-core rig or several per pool would be greatly appreciated.

P.P.S.:
Would it be worthwhile for me to post a similar question in the Project Development, or would such act disagree too much with good manners and forum rules ?
Also, how do I make polls here ?