Goals of the ZelCash Community Pool

More evenly distribute ZelCash mining hash from the top 2 pools

Zel Foundation to cover the infrastructure fees to allow for zero/low mining fees in the future

The community will have a mechanism to help keep the hash distribution even by adjusting fees to encourage/discourage usage (tentative plan)

In the future, use pool fees as donations to the Zel Foundation to fund more 3rd party development of ZelCash blockchain

The Zel Community has asked for a ZelCash Community mining solution, and the Zel Foundation is listening. The Zel Pool provides an opportunity to grow and expand on the already great pool offerings. Ensuring equal mining distribution not only benefits miners, but the entire support community. Many people know that centralization of hash power can lead to things like 51% and double-spend attacks, but concentrated hash is also frowned upon by entities such as larger exchanges and liquidity providers.

If you care about ZelCash as a project and also would like to take advantage of 0% mining fees, please consider mining at the Zel Community Pool.

Fee Structure

Currently the Zel Pool will maintain 0% mining fees, and the Zel Foundation will use funds to support the required infrastructure and maintenance of the pool. In the future, we plan to add minimal fees that will act as donations to the Zel Foundation, both to support the pool and for use with future community-based development projects for ZelCash. We will also develop the mechanism of adjustable pool fees to aid in keeping an even distribution of hash power across the entire ZelCash Network (which might or might not be implemented).

Zel Pool Plans

In the coming weeks, the Zel Pool will receive UI and functional updates to bring it inline with current pool offering interfaces and dashboards. Additionally, we will gauge if using the adjustable fee is worthwhile to implement to keep hash distributed more evenly than it is currently to avoid potential attack vectors.

Also please consider any pool with a lower hash rate than the top 2 to distribute network hash:

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Written by Zel Technologies, GmbH — 08 January 2019— Rev. 1

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