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Community and Contributing ​

Hydrapool is a 256 Foundation project. The software is open, and so is the conversation around running it. P2Pool V2 has its own venues. Use the one that matches the work.

Where things happen ​

  • GitHub: source, issues, and pull requests. Bug reports and changes to the pool belong here. The forum about post says the same thing.
  • Hydrapool forum: setup and operations. Docker, the Bitcoin node, config.toml, solo and PPLNS, fees, dashboards, reverse proxies, and running a pool other people use. Show-and-tell belongs here too.
  • The 256 Foundation forum: the rest of the Foundation's projects, in the same place.
  • Telegram: the Foundation's public group chat. It is chat. It is not the forum. The previous website called this link the public forum. That label was wrong.
  • X: the Foundation's public account.
  • Design goals: payout plugins, node packaging, and Stratum V2.
  • P2Pool V2: the sharechain project. Protocol and marketplace questions belong there, and on its repository. Hydrapool's forum will not be the spec for that design.

There is no signup on this site, and the site does not collect secrets. API passwords and RPC credentials stay in your config file.

The public instance is not office hours ​

pool.256foundation.org:3333 is the Foundation's hashrate donation. A block it finds pays the Foundation. Pointing a miner there is not a support request, and it is not how you join a paid pool. The rules are on Public instances.

Contributing code ​

The pool is Rust. The repository README is the build and deploy document. Issues are the place to propose a change before a large pull request.

Jungly (Kulpreet Singh) is the architect the Foundation's projects page names for Hydrapool, and he maintains P2Pool V2 independently. Patches to Hydrapool go to the Hydrapool repository. Patches to the sharechain go to the P2Pool V2 repository. A change that only bumps the shared library still needs a Hydrapool release before a Hydrapool operator is running it.

Contributing to this site ​

This site is its own repository. Every page ends with an edit link. CONTRIBUTING.md in that repository covers commits and the preview build. AGENTS.md records what the pages may claim. The short version: do not write that an export proves a payout, do not call the donation instance a paid pool, and do not describe P2Pool V2 as a Foundation product or as a feature you get by running Hydrapool today.

Supporting this work ​

Hydrapool does not take donations of its own. To fund the Foundation's projects, use the 256 Foundation. A hashrate donation is the public instance above, with the payout rule that page states. It is optional, and it is not a fee for reading these docs.

License ​

Hydrapool is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0. The crate field says AGPLv3. GitHub reports AGPL-3.0.