Overdue post for one of the best hackathons in the Bitcoin space! After attending nostr:npub1dwah6u025f2yy9dgwlsndntlfy85vf0t2eze5rdg2mxg99k4mucqxz7c52 we became aware of the centralization risks of Bitcoin pool mining. 🧵👇
As community organizers, we felt compelled to empower our local communities to take action and encourage participation in the Bitcoin network.
🚀 Introducing Hash League – a leaderboard ranking #Bitcoin communities by the combined hashrate of their mining pools. Born out of nostr:npub1dwah6u025f2yy9dgwlsndntlfy85vf0t2eze5rdg2mxg99k4mucqxz7c52 and a desire to decentralize pool mining. Here's how we built it:
⚙️Hash League ranks Bitcoin communities based on the total hashrate of their mining pools. It’s a live leaderboard powered by publicly accessible Stratum data.
📍Community organizers can add their meetups or mining pools via GitHub. Hashrate data is pulled live from public Stratum servers. Check it out and claim your meetup: https://hashleague.atlbitlab.com/
🔧 We built it by launching our own mining pool on an AWS EC2 instance using a public pool setup linked to a meetup. Then we:
– Hooked it into our web app
– Pointed BitAxes miners at our pool
– Built a clean UI showing real-time pool rankings
🔮Next On the roadmap:
– Stratum V2 SRI support
– DATUM Gateway API
– NOSTR integration with FROSTR for pool signature delegation that community organizers can leverage
🌐We're making enhancements before submitting it to the nostr:npub1t8a7uumfmam38kal4xaakzyjccht4y5jxfs4cmlj0p768pxtwu8skh56yu hackathon. Feedback is welcome on the GitHub!
nostr:npub1nxy56ame2gfnfj6fjylzxwq7r94phvgwt037mmvwr60qsqlaseksswlnxl and I are honored to have won:
🏆 Most Educational
🎨 Best Design
🥇 Overall 1st Place
🧡 Huge thanks to nostr:npub1e0z776cpe0gllgktjk54fuzv8pdfxmq6smsmh8xd7t8s7n474n9smk0txy and the amazing panel of judges who made the hackathon possible. We're grateful to have been a part of it!
Let’s see which meetup is not all talk. Go join a pool or create a new one. Show us your proof of work!
https://video.nostr.build/bf7d92afbdda60a53e4ab45885af5c7f301ea196743a10e9d12dac01b2c17891.mp4