Announcement

Advantages vs dcrstakepool

An instance of bbolt db on the front-end server is used as the single source of truth:
- bbolt does not have the sys admin overhead associated with maintaining a MySQL database. The database will be automatically created and maintained by vspd.
- The bbolt database is only accessed by vspd. There is no need to open additional ports on your front-end server for the voting wallets to access the database.
Voting wallet servers require only dcrwallet and dcrd. There is no longer a VSP binary (ie. stakepoold) running on voting servers.
Voting servers no longer need dcrd to be running with --txindex.
No need to use the same wallet seed on each voting wallet.
A new fee address and amount are requested for each ticket:
- Fee addresses are never reused.
- Fee amount can be changed freely.
No emails or personal information are held. No need to worry about GDPR et al.

No redeem script to back up.
No registration required - no email, no password, no CAPTCHA.
Voting preferences can be set for each individual ticket.
No address reuse.
VSP fees are paid independently of the ticket purchase, rather than being included in the ticket:
- Multiple VSPs can be used for a single ticket.
- Fees can be paid using funds from a mixed account.
- VSP users can purchase tickets in the same anonymity set at solo stakers.

Solo tickets and VSP tickets are indistinguishable on-chain.
Clients and servers can hold eachother accountable for actions. This enables users to prove if a VSP is misbehaving, and VSPs to defend themselves if they are falsely accused.