vnprc on Nostr: The reason mining pools set low difficulty thresholds today is so that they can ...

The reason mining pools set low difficulty thresholds today is so that they can provide metrics to their miners. There is a better way.

If the miner runs a hashrate proxy they can monitor their own metrics and only submit actually valuable proof of work shares upstream to the pool. This reduces the resource load on the pool and solves practically all performance problems.

We don't need to do things the stupid way just because that is how they have always been done.