Since Bitaxe there are many decentralized home miners, and almost all are used in solo mode. Why? Pooled usage is cumbersome, plus there’s not much use of the few sats they would make. How about for daily zaps on Nostr? With Zappool you can do that: just plug your npub into a Bitaxe, and get daily zaps from it! Permissionless and easy.
Zappool -- likely the first working proxy pool -- solved the bootstrapping issue by being based on top of another pool. It creates a simple user experience by combining the bitcoin mining, lightning and Nostr stack.