This is what makes things confusing, right?
"Solo" really only refers to who is making the block templates, while "lottery" refers to only the miner who found the block receiving the payouts.
These are also the two main services a pool CAN provide to you. The pool can provide you with block templates to hash, and it can provide you with more regular payouts than if you were mining without the pool.
Standard pools provide both of those services: Block templates to hash and regular payouts whenever anyone in the pool finds a block.
Lottery pools only provide the first of those services: Block templates to hash. They don't provide regular payouts. You only get paid if your miner finds a block.
Until OCEAN, those were the only two structures. No one had yet figured out a way for a pool to provide regular payouts whenever anyone in the pool found a block without also providing block templates for those within the pool to hash. So, solo miners were all, by default, lottery miners, because they had no pool they could connect to and still be able to create their own block templates.
This led to confusion with people equating solo mining with lottery mining, when it really only refers to creating your own block templates.
But now, with OCEAN, you actually CAN create your own block templates while being connected to a pool only for the sake of regular payouts. So you ARE solo mining when you use DATUM, regardless of whether you are connecting to OCEAN for block reward splits or lottery mining without any pool at all.
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2025-04-04 16:27:08
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