boompow VS nano-dpow

Payments have been resumed. Please update your clients as pre-generation has now been made a feature. If you wish to disable pre-generation there is an optional launch tag for it. https://github.com/BananoCoin/boompow/releases/tag/v2.1.2

Thanks to bbedward recreating BoomPoW on Golang and adding BoomPoW v2 support to Pippin, FreeNanoFaucet.com has been updated with much better performance than before (local PoW generation)

Nault uses Banano's BoomPoW as well. It has processed over 2 million transactions for Nault. https://bpow.banano.cc/

Enter BoomPow - Banano's distributed proof of work (DPoW) system. Users dedicate their hardware to complete PoW for Apps that use the service and earn BAN in the process.

Banano transactions require a "proof of work" in order to be broadcasted and confirmed on the network. Basically, you need to compute a series of random hashes until you find one that is "valid" (satisfies the difficulty equation). This serves as a replacement for a transaction fee. Services that send a lot of transactions, like BananoBot++ or u/Banano_Tipbot can use bpow.banano.cc to let the community help calculate the hashes. 1000 Banano is split between all folders based on how many work hashes you got.

Provide work for $ban : https://github.com/BananoCoin/boompow/blob/master/client/README.md

Another method of mining banano is to run BoomPow. This rewards you for providing the POW for nano and banano transactions.

BoomPow

Anyone can do that via: https://github.com/guilhermelawless/nano-dpow/tree/master/client

boomPoW is a fork of dPoW, but dPoW is kind of dead now

It has 2 instances: - https://dpow.nanocenter.org/ (seems link redirects to nanolooker now) - https://bpow.banano.cc (dPoW for both Nano and Banano, you can also earn some Bananos)

"BoomPoW (bPow) is a peel of the Distributed Proof of Work System (DPoW). The aim is to provide reliable, fast proof of work to not only BANANO apps and services, but also to NANO apps and services.

No? And how would we do that in a decentralized way? Services, that do a lot of transactions and are considered useful to NANO have access to a system called Distributed PoW. By registering for DPOW they get verified. You can't have that kind of gate keeping for a whole network. It wouldn't be open anymore.

It depends on how you setup your node and service. If your node is generating work, then process will by default watch_work and generate PoW at a higher difficulty. If your node is not generating PoW, which is the most common setup, then it's up to services how to approach and implement it. Many services will also precompute work, which is entirely dependent on the services implementation. Some services use dPoW for generation, which is only generating work at base difficulty at the moment.

Natrium already uses distributed PoW and doesn't generate the work on its own: https://github.com/guilhermelawless/nano-dpow#projects-using-dpow

DPow: https://dpow.nanocenter.org