This is part of our series on a year of Bittensor experience, leading up to our anniversary at the 13th of July. After describing honest, rogue, calculative, blockchain-savvy, overfitting, devops, (over)analyzing, clueless, slow, lazy and (un)lucky miners, our last miner is the idle miner. Please let us know what you think in our Discord channel!
Why should a miner that is doing nothing earn incentive? In a lot of subnet designs this is common practice. Either the validators are down, or too busy to keep the miners working. Or miners have an hour to find a particular answer, and consistently deliver within a few minutes, or even less.
Other cases are those where mining is a long running (and often expensive) training job, that is rewarded after submitting the result, with often no clear reason to keep training, once the top position is reached. We’ve seen miners staying at the top of the leaderboard for weeks, while during that time they were doing nothing!
Rewarding idle miners gives them no incentive to keep providing additional value or to cooperate in building the subnet. Making miner emission proportional to their actual load, should stimulate them to keep the subnet effective, either by doing useful work, or by sharing any ideas they might have to grow the subnet. The combined knowledge and skill of miners may easily surpass that of the subnet owners, so why not try and tap in to that?
Next up is a small recap on #winning at mining.
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