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Hi,

The x8s pool (http://btc.x8s.de (http://btc.x8s.de)) now exists for a couple of weeks and we've reached a nice hashrate during this time. Although we're still a small pool, I think we don't have to hide :)

Short Info:

• multiple servers for better stability
• Worker monitoring (email alerts)
• Hashrate graphs
• Proportional Share with 1% Fee
• Longpoll
• Twitter updates for "Block found" and "Payment ready"
• SSL
• API (json)
• Achievement System is in early alpha stage
• Userbar
• IRC Channel
• 8 decimals for payout

          

did you buy a script, is this with opensource software, or did you code it yourself?

It's a self coded frontend in Symfony to pushpool.

Just wanted to Post an update:

I've added a couple of more stats in the meantime & some nice graphs :)
And currently we're running at ~>3GHash/s

It's growing =)

This pool works great, no idles and very few stale/invalid shares compared to the other bigger pools. It just needs some more hashing-power ;)

I totally agree - works very stable with only few stale/invalid shares.
Raising hashing speed would be nice - feel free to join some workers that we find your first block soon.
Very nice frontend and stats.

nice and simple  :)
low fee is very interesting. are you also keep the blocks'  fees?
i am expecting a pool (with a low fee) that will share the whole block (plus fees i mean) ;)

moreover i don't think that workers' password is useful at all.
any anti-dDos measures?

also don't forget to add email confirmation in order to confirm a Bitcoin Address changing ;)

push

first block has been found.
but balance is still zero!  ???

I'm trying to find the reason for that,

root@Debian-60-squeeze-64-minimal ~/.bitcoin # bitcoind getaccountaddress ""
14PpHrA6rnJgvo4jRgV8AuDHvidVcFYXYZ

root@Debian-60-squeeze-64-minimal ~/.bitcoin # bitcoind listtransactions
[
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http://blockexplorer.com/address/14PpHrA6rnJgvo4jRgV8AuDHvidVcFYXYZ

Pushpool thought that it was a valid block... but it doesn't show up anywhere :(

also see http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=8707.msg231687#msg231687

Little update:

The Block showed up a couple of hours later, everyone should have gotten his share :) (Because of the hickup with that block, it was a 0% Fee Round..)

So: GZ TO OUR FIRST BLOCK :)

yes it worked perfectly!

After the Hardware Problems we had, we're up&running again :)

and it works very well thx

come on guys we need you!

yay :) we found our 2nd Block =)

we have 3 blocks and over 22 GH/s

Please, switch off the "timeago" script – not all is on your timezone.

we are going on find blocks a little bit faster than other small ones :-)

A little update:
We found 10 blocks in the meantime :)
Last weekend i've moved to a bigger server, and we're running now with ~60GHash.
Also Kiv was so nice to include us in the GUIMiner :)


dem0noid: i'll release an update so that timeago is only enabled if you have selected german in a couple of minutes

push and our luckpool have found now 14 blocks. 70-95 GH/s

So, we just found our 15th Block (as long as it doesn't get invalid ^^)

Now's the time for everyone to join the new round and give the pool a try =)

So, 16 found Blocks now and we broke the 100GHash barrier :) Currently running with a little below 120 Ghash

Congrats on your pool, do you have a pool stats api? Also do you use proportional or PPS? Thanks!

you should be stickied, you have more haserate than ars as of this posting

You found my weakness: keeping the FAQs up to date... currently there's only a per user api (or better.. the usual json stuff with hashrate + balance) but I might release a global pool json api in the next hours.

Currently I'm only offering a proportional payout with 1% fee

about getting stickied, the hashrate is a little bit volatile, if there's a good buffer (like ~30Ghash) between x8s and the last top10 pool I'll give it a try to get stickied :)

And today is really a lucky day :) 4 Blocks in the last 24h! yay! :)

I'm very impressed - very lucky pool so far in that for 3 days straight, I'm averaging almost 1BTC per day at 1100MHash/sec :)

come on guys more power more btc ...

after we had some luck in the previous today, the last block was with 4,7Mio Shares a real monster, but we've finished him ^^

So, new round started :)

And I've finally implemented automatic payout last night

did you release that api?

yes he had. And some more nice features for stats. Also a loadbalancing is in work (now you can choose between 3 Servers) and stale rate is nearly 0 (1 stale for 10000 shares > 0,01%)

your pool been included "Who found the bitcoin blocks?"

http://digbtc.com[/b]]http://digbtc.com (http://[b)

that is cool, your link is not correct.
Last Block was 136947

right, I find the site need login to get data, so I will process it later!

Basically you just need a (json) array with all the blocknumbers found by the pool, don't you?


I've also added a mini pool stats json with the #Workers and Hashrate:
http://btc.x8s.de/api/global.json



Edit:
http://btc.x8s.de/api/blocks.json for the pool blocks

Small Update:
* 8 decimals payouts are now possible

and some work on the json stat files

I've updated the short info on the first page:

    * Worker monitoring (email alerts)
    * Hashrate graphs
    * Proportional Share with 1% Fee
    * Longpoll
    * Twitter updates for "Block found" and "Payment ready"
    * SSL
    * API (json)
    * Achievement System is in early alpha stage
    * Userbar
    * IRC Channel
    * 8 decimals for payout

with the json api, it's very easy to add.

now your pool been added at http://digbtc.com (http://digbtc.com)

Is your pool now PPLNS?  You tweeted that you were going to switch it over, but you didn't post anything here.  Your site still says proportional . . .

According to the german forums, it's PPLNS. Also says so on the "Balance" page.

Hi, I'm sorry to announce that I've decided to close down the pool. I didn't want to announce it earlier, to prevent the current round from taking forever.

I wrote an detailed post in the German section of the board, so I'm sorry that I'll write here only a shorter notice.
Basically the main reason is, that I have to less time for getting the pool where I want it to be :( (Also the legal situation in Germany is quite unclear and maybe that the competition is too strong? =) )

The few shares that made it into Round 32 will be accounted with PPS, the pool website will be up for a couple of weeks so that everyone has time to withdraw their funds (for the cases where I can't send the money because there's no payout address in the profile etc)

Thanks for all the users that made the pool what it was. I really enjoyed building up the pool with you, but now it's time for me to move on :(

Sorry to hear, afaik you'll be the first "larger" pool to shut down.
If you want to, we could maybe arrange something between our pools - I'd gladly help with taking over existing miners (and accounts).

Send me a PM if that's interesting :)

Regards, Jim

sorry to hear man - all the best in your future endeavours :)

hello im very sad to see the pool went down, i have not received my last payout. 1PZiER1YrovF9Emy3R2Ng9qwStoGrjpyrv  -0.44010724 there is my address and the amount i have not gotten. its been 15hours 

Your payout is in the block chain, so technically you have it in your wallet. Make sure the number displayed in the lower right corner of your bitcoin client is at  least 137670, it will show up then. And another 0.017BTC as well a few blocks later (137702).

it says 131280

is there a minimum payout you'll be making? Or will all amounts be paid out? I only have 0.05 coin owing, so just wondering.

Minimum is probably 0.01. I paid out a few cents and it worked.

it will only let me pay out 0.1 i think