Sent 2nd prize to ! I had an issue with sending 1st and 3rd though, apparently both users have a Coinos.io wallet , which appears to be unavailable right now (their payment today also failed with timeout). Sorry about this. I will retry sending .

Hey @Zappool users, here are the winners to the January Zappool Giveaway!!! *** 25000 sat: '...3...6cua9j' (with 14 zaps) ** 20000 sat: '...6...nzvt65' (with 14 zaps) * 15000 sat: '...a...dvjvcr' (with 6 zaps) Sending the prize zaps out soon! Thanks for all the loyal users! Congratulations ! Details. There were 8 users () 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 by their 38th character gave the above winners.

Checking the WINNERS soon!!!

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)

Less than one day to find out the WINNERS!!!

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?

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!

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

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)

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

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? 😂

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

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

ZAPPOOL GIVEAWAY! Huge prize, free satoshis! 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!

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).

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.

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/ (The zaps are to , 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:". 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).