# P2share: how to turn any network (or testnet!) into a bitcoin miner **URL:** \ **Category:** Protocol Design\ **Tags:** mining-pools, mining\ **Created:** [November 7, 2025, 1:06am UTC](https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/p2share-how-to-turn-any-network-or-testnet-into-a-bitcoin-miner/2093 "2025-11-07T01:06:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
**Author:** ![cmp\_ancp](https://delvingbitcoin.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@cmp\_ancp](https://delvingbitcoin.org/u/cmp_ancp)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2025, 2:44pm UTC](https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/p2share-how-to-turn-any-network-or-testnet-into-a-bitcoin-miner/2093/5 "2025-11-09T14:44:47Z")
I really found out this idea of a “pool sidechain” very elegant, though don’t know exactly how it would work. That is, the idea of a blockchain is itself a way to coordinate multiple nodes in a descentralized manner, and thinking in that way, a descentralized pool could be based on it. Maybe we could have miners that are mining BTC blocks, but these blocks are, at the same time, commiting to a sidechain. Maybe the commiting part could be at the nonce, or in the coinbase. Actually, the miner could commit to a Merkle tree of multiple values. Even if a miner fails on finding a block, maybe he could share weak blocks to the sidechain, prooving that he is indeed spending power. These sidechain commits could also serve as a proof that his templates send the coinbase to the pool. The sidechain could have faster blocks, and could also be a lattice, I don’t know. Miners don’t need to sync to the entire sidechain, once the commits would be available on the BTC chain. Just gathering a bunch of ideas, don’t really know how these could glue together, but at least I think someome smarter than me could have an insight lmao. Also, if this were to be glued together, there must be a way to limit bandwidth usage or unecessary computation. The system overall cannot be a burden to the miner, to the point of making mining with this pool disadvantageous. --- _[View the full topic](https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/p2share-how-to-turn-any-network-or-testnet-into-a-bitcoin-miner/2093)._