Sooooo, I believe the ethos of Bitcoiners leads us to believe in decentralization as a first principle of Bitcoin. Umbrel is a tool for Bitcoiners to contribute in many ways to that principle - and as such, I’d like to work with a few people on setting up an Umbrel app to create a solo mining pool that each Umbrel node runner could run and point solo hash at to help in this endeavor. It’d make use of the already-created Bitcoin node app, so most people could just install the Pool app and point their NerdMiner or Apollo, or what have you, at your own pool and watch the hashing fun.
I’m a veteran sysadmin by trade, and can either help with the systems development or fund the development of such a package. If anyone here has a contribution that they can make to this effort, I’d like to hear from you either via DM or as a response to this post.
I chatted with Dr. Con Colivas last night to see if he was interested in helping make it happen - he said he wasn’t doing much coding these days and knew nothing about docker and didn’t seem very interested. That said, he’s done a lot of the hard work by git-ting ckpool software. He encouraged me and us by extension to work with that and see if we could make it happen. I have plans to set up some test VMs and do a straight forward install of it to become familiar with how it works, then teach myself docker containerization, then umbrel packaging.
If any of you all have experience in any of these three phases, I encourage you to get in touch with me to develop a project to get this done and unleash it on the pleb miners. I think it’ll be a very popular package if we can get it done.
I won’t have time to start this until the end of October, though, regardless.
I am just a pleb running an Umbrel node. I want to learn through hand-on work on Bitcoin mining area.
How can I participate?
I have very basic background on IT infrastructure and software coding.
This is my current favorite but the official website is down. Mining still works but no way to check so having it running locally on umbrel would be better for stability, décentralisation, and reduce lag when submitting completed work back to the pool.
Greetings fellas. I have been following this thread and definitely a newbie to umbrel. I have had a Bitcoin core node up in the past but replaced with a Umbrel full BTC node. I am not new to programming so will follow along and test the code out as I learn.
Netswirl, It’s the Bitcoin Wallet address you use on your miners when you point them to your solo pool. You provide what address you want your payment to go to if you hit a block. Unless you want my bitcoin address, I’d be happy to accept your block found. hahahahahaha.
