PoW WoW

A decentralized protocol to buy Nostr event PoW or sell hashrate

Clients can buy PoW for any Nostr event. PoW is purchased in the form of a blinded nonce. Once the provider is paid, the invoice preimage unblinds the nonce.

Providers can offer to mine PoW. Each provider can configure the conditions under which PoW will be mined, like price and time constraints.

Once a trade is over, the provider's reputation increases if the unblinded PoW is valid, or decreases otherwise. This helps clients avoid dishonest providers in the future.

Read the docs for more details.

Try it out

• Clients
  • WASM Client
  • CLI Client
  • Gossip integration (desktop Nostr client with basic PoW WoW support)
• Providers
  • CLI Provider

Recorded Demos

• https://lab.oak-node.net/powwow/uv/demo/powwow_20231123.mp4

Learn more

• Docs
• Browse code (Git mirror)
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Feedback

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