Hello Rob.
This is abit off topic but i was thinking if it would be possible to add https://2miners.com/ their monero mining pool as a option for the random x mining.
Why im thinking this is because they have this partnership with a mining OS called: RaveOS and then its no cost to use the os if you are using 2miners pools.
This would help out alot for people who have alot of mixed rigs, gpus and cpus. Currently i saw RaveOS dont support cpu mining but they are working on it.
Anyways just some thoughts i had.
And regarding this idea, again, if MIP would be interested please let us know MIP and I would be happy to help you with this, but I think MIP is overloaded right now at work, correct?
As far as the actual idea itself, Im really not against making BBP completely merge-mining compatible, IE pool-agnostic, just like DOGE is. Think of DOGE's success - they rose from nothing to 5 cents a coin with a similar supply as ours. But we have one little issue in our code compared to DOGE that makes us a little more nonstandard: Our monthly orphan payments from XMR that collects the 10% tithe, this process requires a slightly custom pool. I think the primary change that requires me to jump in is the interface that makes payments in XMR back to the miners is a static web link that is only compatible with minexmr.com right now! Thats the main problem, if we add more pools other than minexmr, we just need more and more documentation and confusing links for the XMR payment side and that is basically what stopped me from expanding further away from minexmr.
But lets think of this from a theoretical standpoint, what gives us the maximum sponsorship dollars towards orphans: 10% from mining revenue, or a potential farm of distinct orphan-sponsoring sanctuaries? If our price rose by 10* (similar to doge) for example, we would have 400 sponsoring sancs. Maybe the XMR 10% portion is hampering our growth.
I guess we need to step back for a second and ask, if we standardize our codebase a little more and allow pure-merge-mining with no-orphan charity from the pools, and just put it out there, would we be mined by a magnitude more, or would that hurt us?
I firmly believe we did a great thing with XMR-merge mining to begin with however, because it essentially reduces our mining expenditures down dramatically, since the electricity is paid for on the XMR side.
And our miners are guaranteed a base income for mining biblepay (IE we gain quality block security without the massive expense).