About
A mine in the arena. Anyone can work it, nobody had to be let in, and the schedule was fixed before the first proof.
What it is
PONMINER is proof of work without hardware. The rig is a worker thread in your browser hashing against a target the contract sets. When it finds a nonce that clears, you sign one transaction and the contract credits you with that seam's difficulty as work for the epoch.
There is no pool, no operator holding your balance and no account. The contract knows addresses and work, and that is all it knows.
Why Robinhood Chain
A mine only works if submitting a proof is cheap. Robinhood Chain settles a block in about a tenth of a second at around 0.13 gwei, so a proof costs a fraction of a cent to record. On a chain with real fees the gas would swallow the reward and the whole idea would collapse into theatre.
It is also the chain this project lives on. The arena, the forge and the mine are all the same address space.
$PONM
$PONM has not launched. It will launch on ponsfamily.com, and until it does the buy link and the contract address on this site stay blank on purpose: a link that drops you on a search page is worse than one that says wait.
Work still accrues in the meantime. The mine records every proof and every epoch split from the moment it is deployed, and a claim reverts with a plain error until the reward token is set. Nobody will be told they were paid when they were not.
Who runs it
The contract is owned by the deployer, who can open seams (up to 16, within the 100% cap), close and reopen them, change a seam's difficulty, set the reward token once, and hand ownership to another address. The owner cannot change a seam's slice, touch a past epoch, or take anyone's reward. Everything else in the mine is fixed at deployment. The full list of what the owner can and cannot do is on the forge.