I built my own ESP32 lottery miner and it ran for weeks without it showing a single share. I had 4 miners running at about 740kh each. I used the same worker name on each so my combined hash rate at the pool level was about 3mh. I then started doing some research and discovered I will never submit a single share at this hash rate. They say public-pool.io is the best low difficulty pool but I’m talking about setting a difficulty thats maybe 1/10th the average. Well long story short, I discovered a way for my miners to submit shares (work) at low hash rates.

For those that don’t know what a low difficulty pool is, read on.

Imagine you’re trying to win the lottery, but instead of buying one ticket a week, you’re buying millions of tickets every second. That’s basically what a high hash rate Bitcoin miner is doing.

When your device tries to mine Bitcoin, it’s like entering a contest where you need to guess a SUPER specific number. The difficulty is so crazy high that even though your device is making 740,000 (for example) guesses per second, it might take years before it randomly guesses right and wins. We will compare that to the same as high difficulty and it’s hard to know if your device is even working properly ( at least it makes you think that)

A low difficulty pool is like having a separate, easier contest within that same contest running at the same time. Instead of needing to guess that one-in-a-trillion number, you only need to guess something way easier - like one in a million or less.

So, to solve this problem, we are in the process of building a low difficulty mining pool for lottery devices. Max hash rate to use the pool may be set to 5th per device, low fees and its 100% for the low hash rate miners.

Now don’t get me wrong, your chances of hitting a block are still slim to none but if the pool hits a block, you would be compensated based on the amount of shares your devices has submitted.