What's the reasoning behind moving ahead with the "extremely easy to setup" POOM before first making PODC/Boinc extremely easy to setup?
In addition to what thesnat said, the proposal does not actually propose to remove PODC, please understand that POOM competes against the PODC budget.
Next, as far as making PODC easier to use, you can see from the latest releases - that we are trying to do that - with the buttons and the new rpc commands - but its not an easy infrastructure to slim down to one click mining - as there are many moving parts. Compiling boinc, compiling
[email protected], overtaking boincs cpid total credit delta mechanism, handling 20 years of intercommunication RPC call codes, dealing with states of partially installed miners in any state possible, so, explaining this in a non-programming way: one could investigate due diligence for the hours to simplify it - it could take a lot of labor - maybe it could be done - maybe not - it depends on what resources we allocate to it, etc.
Otoh, I think it truly would be an asset to have the potential to launch a PR campaign against some ability of one-click mining. We almost had it with our initial launch - simple CPU mining - but unfortunately the botnet in Japan took that infrastructure over. Now we know a lot more info about mining, and with things like CPIDs or POOM public keys, we can limit a botnets effectiveness by at least requiring miners to have a key (to mine in our current state).
Another way to put it is: If we want a campaign to grow biblepay - it appears BOINC is currently causing stagnation - maybe its too hard - maybe its the high UTXO requirement - I dont know. The question is will something like POOM result in 1 new net user per day, or not.