On 20.02.2022 13:37, Maxime Devos wrote: > > The points about slippery slopes, research and niche use-cases seem > reasonable to me. I do see follow-up questions though, should the > description in Guix warn about potential issues? And should the > description focus on research uses? ... > > More concretely, the p2pool description is: > > ‘Monero P2Pool is a peer-to-peer Monero mining pool. P2Pool > combines the advantages of pool and solo mining; you still fully > control your Monero node and what it mines, but *you get frequent > payouts like on a regular pool.*’ > > This is quite a bit different from, say, aircrack-ng which seems > to be mostly about assessing security, whereas the p2pool description > is about gaining money (see ‘payouts’), and without mentioning that > mining costs a lot of energy (and hence money, and possibly the money > that is gained by mining is smaller than the amount lost due to energy > costs!). > > My dislike for the description of p2pool might just be my views on > money leaking through, though. > > Greetings, > Maxime.
I guess a different description would be better. It sounds almost like a sales pitch with the mention of making money. :-) I'm not familiar with Monero/P2Pool so I don't know what a better description might sound like though. -- Taylan
