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The Block Foundry is a community of miners who strive to help new and experienced miners target the most efficient coins to mine, how to mine properly, and what it is all about. Whether you mine with us or not, we help miners target what’s best for them and spread the word about how a mining community (i.e. pool) should work together to help improve decentralization and profitability. To that end all of our pools will never achieve more than 50% of the total network hash rate.

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We specialize in cryptonight algo coins and ensuring miners have a safe, secure mining pool with the best (and helpful) community.  
Miner guides to help miners from your very first time all the way through experience miners looking to tweak those extra few hashes out of their cards here: https://blockfoundry.org/miner-resources/the-loki-project/ (https://blockfoundry.org/miner-resources/the-loki-project/)

• Pool Fee: 0.5%
• Adjustable minimum payout: 5 ARMS (Set your minimal payout level higher in Settings)
• Denomination Unit: 0.01 ARMS
• Payout Method: PPS (Round Based - Proportional)
• Payment Interval: 60 minutes
• Server Location: US Node (https://arms.blockfoundry.org)

• Slush Mining enabled - loyal miner scoring system
• Anonymous mining - no login required
• Email notification system enabled
• Exchange mining enabled
• Vardiff/Fixed Difficulty

Mining Ports

• 3333 : CPU hardware : 5000
• 4343 : 1-5kH/s : 50000
• 5353 : More than 5kh/s (consider setting static difficulty) : 100000
• 7373 : Cloud Mining

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• Pool Fee: 0.5%
• Adjustable minimum payout: 3 CCX (Set your minimal payout level higher in Settings)
• Denomination Unit: 0.01 CCX
• Payout Method: PPS (Round Based - Proportional)
• Payment Interval: 60 minutes
• Server Location: US Node (https://conceal.blockfoundry.org)

• Slush Mining enabled - loyal miner scoring system
• Anonymous mining - no login required
• Email notification system enabled
• Exchange mining enabled
• Vardiff/Fixed Difficulty

Mining Ports

• 3232 : CPU hardware : 5000
• 4242 : 1-5kH/s : 50000
• 5252 : More than 5kh/s (consider setting static difficulty) : 100000
• 7272 : Cloud Mining

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• Pool Fee: 0.5%
• Adjustable minimum payout: 5 GRFT (Set your minimal payout level higher in Settings)
• Denomination Unit: 0.01 GRFT
• Payout Method: PPS (Round Based - Proportional)
• Payment Interval: 60 minutes
• Server Location: US Node (https://graft.blockfoundry.org)

• Slush Mining enabled - loyal miner scoring system
• Anonymous mining - no login required
• Email notification system enabled
• Exchange mining enabled
• Vardiff/Fixed Difficulty

Mining Ports

• 3535 : CPU hardware : 5000
• 4545 : 1-5kH/s : 50000
• 5555 : More than 5kh/s (consider setting static difficulty) : 100000
• 7575 : Cloud Mining

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• Pool Fee: 0.5%
• Adjustable minimum payout: 5 LTHN (Set your minimal payout level higher in Settings)
• Denomination Unit: 0.01 LTHN
• Payout Method: PPS (Round Based - Proportional)
• Payment Interval: 60 minutes
• Server Location: US Node (https://lethean.blockfoundry.org)

• Slush Mining enabled - loyal miner scoring system
• Anonymous mining - no login required
• Email notification system enabled
• Exchange mining enabled
• Vardiff/Fixed Difficulty

Mining Ports

• 3232 : CPU hardware : 5000
• 4242 : 1-5kH/s : 50000
• 5252 : More than 5kh/s (consider setting static difficulty) : 100000
• 7272 : Cloud Mining

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• Pool Fee: 0.5%
• Adjustable minimum payout: 2 LOKI (Set your minimal payout level higher in Settings)
• Denomination Unit: 0.01 LOKI
• Payout Method: PPS (Round Based - Proportional)
• Payment Interval: 60 minutes
• Server Location: US Node (https://loki.blockfoundry.org)

• Slush Mining enabled - loyal miner scoring system
• Anonymous mining - no login required
• Email notification system enabled
• Exchange mining enabled
• Vardiff/Fixed Difficulty

Mining Ports

• 3131 : CPU hardware : 5000
• 4141 : 1-5kH/s : 50000
• 5151 : More than 5kh/s (consider setting static difficulty) : 100000
• 7171 : Cloud Mining

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• Pool Fee: 0.5%
• Adjustable minimum payout: 1 MSR (Set your minimal payout level higher in Settings)
• Denomination Unit: 0.01 MSR
• Payout Method: PPS (Round Based - Proportional)
• Payment Interval: 60 minutes
• Server Location: US Node (https://masari.blockfoundry.org)

• Slush Mining enabled - loyal miner scoring system
• Anonymous mining - no login required
• Email notification system enabled
• Exchange mining enabled
• Vardiff/Fixed Difficulty

Mining Ports

• 3434 : CPU hardware : 5000
• 4444 : 1-5kH/s : 50000
• 5454 : More than 5kh/s (consider setting static difficulty) : 100000
• 7474 : Cloud Mining

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• Pool Fee: 0.5%
• Adjustable minimum payout: 0.01 XMR (Set your minimal payout level higher in Settings)
• Denomination Unit: 0.001 MSR
• Payout Method: PPS (Round Based - Proportional)
• Payment Interval: 60 minutes
• Server Location: US Node (https://monero.blockfoundry.org)

• Slush Mining enabled - loyal miner scoring system
• Anonymous mining - no login required
• Email notification system enabled
• Exchange mining enabled
• Vardiff/Fixed Difficulty

Mining Ports

• 3131 : CPU hardware : 5000
• 4141 : 1-5kH/s : 50000
• 5151 : More than 5kh/s (consider setting static difficulty) : 100000
• 7171 : Cloud Mining

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• Pool Fee: 0.5%
• Adjustable minimum payout: 1 RYO (Set your minimal payout level higher in Settings)
• Denomination Unit: 0.01 RYO
• Payout Method: PPS (Round Based - Proportional)
• Payment Interval: 60 minutes
• Server Location: US Node (https://ryo.blockfoundry.org)

• Slush Mining enabled - loyal miner scoring system
• Anonymous mining - no login required
• Email notification system enabled
• Vardiff/Fixed Difficulty

Mining Ports

• 3131 : CPU hardware : 5000
• 4141 : 1-5kH/s : 50000
• 5151 : More than 5kh/s (consider setting static difficulty) : 100000
• 7171 : Cloud Mining

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• Pool Fee: 0.5%
• Adjustable minimum payout: 100 XCASH (Set your minimal payout level higher in Settings)
• Denomination Unit: 0.01 XCASH
• Payout Method: PPS (Round Based - Proportional)
• Payment Interval: 60 minutes
• Server Location: US Node (https://xcash.blockfoundry.org)

• Slush Mining enabled - loyal miner scoring system
• Anonymous mining - no login required
• Email notification system enabled
• Exchange mining enabled
• Vardiff/Fixed Difficulty

Mining Ports

• 3535 : CPU hardware : 5000
• 4545 : 1-5kH/s : 50000
• 5555 : More than 5kh/s (consider setting static difficulty) : 100000
• 7575 : Cloud Mining

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This is the best Loki pool I’ve found.  Made more in 2 days here than in 4 days on a big pool.  Don’t fall into the trap of thinking a high hashrate pool equals a higher payout... it doesn’t.

Your support is greatly appreciated!

We are reworking the pool front-end with a new launch coming soon. In the meantime, check out the new cryptomining resource page:
https://blockfoundry.org - Helping miners of all experience levels and links to all our pools (still accepting suggestions for more pool node locations and new coin pools).

As always the fastest way to get a hold of us for questions about the pool or general mining help is on our Discord: https://discord.gg/63QKpeb

What other pools are you thinking about adding?

That's up to the miners really, if there is a strong base consensus on another coin (we prefer cryptonote variants).

Quick update, we had some block effort calculations go haywire for a minute. Rather than purge everyone's data, we decided to leave it and let those high rates drop off from calculation over time. No payouts or any shares submitted were affected, it was merely a display error

Good news is we are moving to a new, more powerful back end VPS soon and SSL mining will be enabled for all ports ( currently only open for one port).

100TH BLOCK FOUND!  Come Join the block party!  :o

Congratulations to the pool.  May we find many more!   ;D

Can you please explain what an SSL port is and why I would want to use it.

SSL stands for Secure Socket Layer and provides an encrypted transmission of data from point to point. As LOKI is a privacy and anonymity focused coin, it makes sense to provide another layer of privacy for those that want it. Choosing to connect to an SSL port encrypts your submissions to the pool. If anyone needs help connecting with a particular miner, hop into our discord and we can provide assistance. It's a fairly simple process, usually just involves flipping a tag in the miner config to TLS = true.

We are getting very close to the 25 minimum miners needed (steady - we've been over that number several times last week) for weekly lottery giveaways, tell your friends!

***POOL UPDATE ***

We had an issue overnight where apparently the internet backbone for our ISP was damaged. Sorry everyone, but we are back up now and everything is running fine. No LOKI was lost and your wallets/accounts are still secure. We are looking into migrating to a more dependable server/ISP this weekend to avoid this issue in the future.

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***POOL UPDATE ***

NEW Pool Server Upgrade Complete!

We have a new address: http://loki-us-west.blockfoundry.org (http://loki-us-west.blockfoundry.org) - Miners, be sure to switch over as soon as possible.

We have based this pool in the US-West, but looking for miners to support and EU node (and possibly other locations). Drop into our Discord if you are interested in connecting to a different location!


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New server is up and running nicely.  Currently running less than 60% effort, but need more miners.
You will usually make more coins mining on a lower hashrate pool than on a higher hashrate pool.  Big pools tend to run around 100% effort (luck) due to their size.  Smaller pools typically run less than 100%... more coins for you!

https://loki-us-west.blockfoundry.org/ (https://loki-us-west.blockfoundry.org/)

Looking to add additional coins to mining pool.  If there is a coin you would like to mine in the U.S., please vote in the poll at top of this thread.

If you have any questions about the pool or need help with getting your mining software going, please visit our Discord channel:
https://discord.gg/63QKpeb (https://discord.gg/63QKpeb)

Tx fees and denomination unit has been lowered, giving miners the maximum amount of each blocks reward and keeping less in pool wallets. Trying to alleviate as much LOKI dust as possible, sending it to you!

Ok, so quick update....we have decided to close the Haven pool in favor of spinning up a Europe node for Loki instead. Should be up in the next few days, we will announce on the current server when the EU node is live.

Could you perhaps look at a US based pool for https://zbucks.org. We need pools for that region.

Welcome to The Block Foundry family!

zBucks Pool Added!

*** NEW POOL ADDED ***


We have added RYO to The Block Foundry family!: https://ryo.blockfoundry.org (https://ryo.blockfoundry.org) - Welcome!

Drop into our Discord if you have any questions or need help configuring your miners.

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*** NEW POOL ADDED ***


We have added Stellite to The Block Foundry family!: https://stellite.blockfoundry.org (https://stellite.blockfoundry.org) - Welcome!

Drop into our Discord if you have any questions or need help configuring your miners.

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Is anybody interested in mining PrivatePay (XPP) on a US based server?

I’m currently mining Stellite by myself and need some help.  Feel free to join me!
https://stellite.blockfoundry.org
0.1% Pool Fee
US based pool

Quick pool update, there was a method of gaming the pool whereby some cloud miners were gaining large profits off of a little mining. Cloud mining as since been disabled - mine on fellow miners, and thanks for sticking with us 24/7 !!

What coin needs a good U.S. based pool?  We are looking for ideas!

*** NEW POOL ADDED ***


We have added Masari to The Block Foundry family!: https://masari.blockfoundry.org (https://masari.blockfoundry.org) - Welcome!

Drop into our Discord if you have any questions or need help configuring your miners.

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Hi! Please consider adding BUKZ to your Cryptonight Pool :)

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4557266
http://bukz.website

Hope you have a good day!

We will be in touch, have a good day!

***POOL UPDATE ***

The Slush Mining system has been tweaked to support all the loyal 24/7 miners the best possible way. Thank you for mining with The Block Foundry!

We also had an upgrade recently so those of you asking about our pool stats, the MSR and LOKI pool databases were reset as if we were a new pool (wallets were unaffected).

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***POOL UPDATE ***

We have made some improvements to the BlockBot reporting system in Discord, and also added an https://pools.blockfoundry.org/ (https://pools.blockfoundry.org/) page for those wanting to see everything at a glance.


I also wanted to say, welcome to all our new miners and thank you for mining with The Block Foundry!



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Block Foundry has one of the best Discord groups around if you need help getting your miners setup or fine tuned.

On the first page you wrote what a payment method is PPS !  This is true?
I'm looking for such a pool!!

It is almost true 😉 ... Our pools are RBPPS, Round Based PPS. There main difference between RBPPS and PPS is that payouts only happen after a block is found, and there is no payout for orphaned blocks.  We have also enabled slush scored mining on some of the pools to prevent pool hopping and hash ramping, so miners can be assured if they stay on the pool they won't be shorted out of all thier work.

No. I'm looking classical PPS pool MSR and XTL! Do you know where to find it?

I am unaware of any such pools for MSR or XTL and I have never seen mention of any in the community listings. They are high risk for pool ops and are not very common because larger miners can take advantage of that type of system along with pool hopping.

You might consider giving our pools a try, they function essentially the same, payouts just don't happen on a time schedule but on a block schedule.

Yes, but then luck is usually not on the miner's side for some reason! Do you have eu servers? My ping with your pool now about 170ms!

We have not added any EU pool support as of yet, we would need a decent core group of miners to make another pool first (but it is planned).

Concerning luck, regardless of the pool over a longer period of time all pools invariably operate at around 100%...it's simply based on math and it's a rule that can only be bent in short time hacks. Pools can have bad "luck" but then will eventually have periods of good "luck" as well.

The idea behind The Block Foundry is to help miners become better and more knowledgeable miners all around. Whether you choose to use our pools or not, our mission to to help miners understand the difference between the truth and the marketing hypes and misconceptions in the crypto-space. Most of what we provide is information free of charge to help the block chain revolution. Miners are in integral part of many projects and it's imperative that small to medium sized miners don't become disillusioned and squished out by large operations which leads to centralization.

I have been mining for more than four years, and I know how luck and pools work. In theory, you are right, but in reality there are very few fair pools! I worked a month on one pool and luck was 105% and about 3% underpaid! where is the logic and mathematics? I try to always work with pps pools and stay with them for a long time! I could allocate to the Eu server about 30 Kh/s on XTL or 60 on Masari and try work with you some time.

Glad to hear it! We would love to have you stop by our discord, we can always use experienced miners to share knowledge points. My explanation was more for the benefit of everyone reading, in case they are newer - so good to hear experience talking, based on your past experience adding to the thread.

We can talk further about EU nodes also, sounds like we may be able work something out.

I am testing your pool XTL now, and want to receive notification on email when my workers will stop, how can i do this? In settings on site i only see : "pool will send out email notification when a block is found and whenever a payout happens"! WHAT THIS? What for? I do not want to receive payment notification, i want to receive notification on email when my workers will stop, it's the most important!

Notifications will go out when your workers disconnect, and also when they reconnect. Our email notification templates are across all pools and removing some functionality at this point would affect everyone on the pool. Some miners like to see the block notifications as well. We will consider your suggestion as we work to make the pools better for all miners in the future. Thanks!

New Graft pool now open...
0.1% fee
10 Graft minimum payout
USA based

https://graft.blockfoundry.org

*** NEW POOL ADDED ***


We have added Graft to The Block Foundry family: https://graft.blockfoundry.org (https://graft.blockfoundry.org) - Welcome!

Drop into our Discord if you have any questions or need help configuring your miners.

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*** NEW POOL ADDED ***


We have added Lethean to The Block Foundry family: https://lethean.blockfoundry.org (https://lethean.blockfoundry.org) - Welcome!

Drop into our Discord if you have any questions or need help configuring your miners.

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 Check out our new Active Pools page!

A quick way to keep tabs on what your pool is doing: https://pools.blockfoundry.org (https://pools.blockfoundry.org)

We need more Lethean miners to get pool hashrate up.

***POOL UPDATE ***

All our Cryptonight pools have had a face lift and some back-end restructuring for more security and efficiency. Come check it out and mine with The Block Foundry!

We are also running a FREE GPU Giveaway contest for the month of January as a way of saying thank you to all our miners, and to welcome new miners to the community as we continue to grow.

Check out the details here: https://blockfoundry.org/crypto-mining-contest-free-gpu-giveaway/ (https://blockfoundry.org/crypto-mining-contest-free-gpu-giveaway/)




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Pool Hopping Dilemma...

To this day, mining pool operators having been experimenting with different payout schemes to attract miners while keeping the base community content. Most of the reward schemes have been phased out, but here are some of the more popular one's . . .

PROP - Proportional. When block is found, the reward is distributed among all workers proportionally to how many shares each of them has found.

PPS - Pay Per Share. Each submitted share is worth a certain amount of rewards. It is risky for pool operators, hence the fee is highest.

PPLNS - Pay Per Last N Shares. Similar to proportional, but instead of looking at the number of shares in the round, this scheme looks at the last N shares, regardless of round boundaries.

Every now and then these pool hosts notice an unethical miner trying to game the system by connecting to pools right after a block is found. This becomes extremely irritable after awhile, especially if your pool has gone through some extremely unlucky long blocks.

When the base miner's notice their payouts are being affected by these so called "Pool Hoppers or Pool Rampers", they tend to gravitate toward pools that use different Paid Per Share schemes. These type of reward system benefit the loyal miners and sure one's payouts will be saved from "Bad Luck" or "Bad Acting Miners", but you also lose out when your particular pool has those moments of "Good Luck".

Dealing with it...

After noticing an increasing amount of pool hopping across the public mining pools, The Block Foundry decided to take charge and protect their loyal miners. Instead of changing the payout structure, it was decided banning particular IP's who have been taking advantage of their miners and PROP payout system seemed fair. Thus, effectively giving the community member satisfaction knowing they will profit from their good luck blocks.

The founder of The Block Foundry, Sixlitr, is attentive and quick to respond to any issue one may have. This is a fair and ethical bunch who welcome anyone with open arms. You'll find a solid group or new and experienced miners all working toward the same goal, finding blocks!

Come grab a drink in the Discord and introduce yourself at The Pub, admit your mining addiction at Hashaholics Anonymous or show us your pc pr0n! Join the growing friendly bunch who are committed to embracing the Mining Community.

https://blockfoundry.org/

Discord : https://discord.gg/Jx6GZN

Forum : https://blockfoundry.org/community/

I promise you won't be disappointed.

***POOL UPDATE ***

Our Masari [MSR] pool is now SECOR Uncle Mining ready!  Come on board and try out the new uncle mining system - no more lost payouts to orphan blocks!

Please note that the algorithm has changed to CN Fast v2.
At this time only XMRig, SRBminer, and CastXMR support this algorithm; make sure to update your miners accordingly.

Check out the pool here: https://masari.blockfoundry.org (https://masari.blockfoundry.org)




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*** NEW POOLS ADDED ***


We have added Conceal to The Block Foundry family: https://conceal.blockfoundry.org (https://conceal.blockfoundry.org) - Welcome!

We have added Monero to The Block Foundry family: https://monero.blockfoundry.org (https://monero.blockfoundry.org) - Welcome!

We have added X-Cash to The Block Foundry family: https://xcash.blockfoundry.org (https://xcash.blockfoundry.org) - Welcome!

Drop into our Discord if you have any questions or need help configuring your miners.

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Its a great place where I have met some great members who have helped teach me and I have helped to teach as well. It's a group effort.....

We are about to create a $VKRW based CryptoNote Mining Pool soon and are looking for people to Mine and accept our Coins for Mining later.