Zappool / Zappool is on Nostr

Daily sats from your Bitaxe!

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2026-02-02 12:07:49 UTC

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The issues has been discussed in private, and has been rectified. Thanks for reporting the issue!

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

2026-01-02 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).