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I'm working on a new Bitcoin mining pool and it is currently open for everyone willing to try it out. The pool is running on a not very powerful, but dedicated system, offers only Proportional mode, 2% fee when withdrawing your earned bitcoins, supports Long Pooling, has very little Stale shares.

The pool's address is: Pool is offline!

After you register you need to create a worker and use the worker username and password for your mining client, you cannot mine with the pool's registration account, nor you can login in your dashboard using a worker username.

Here is an example configuration for logging to the pool using GUI Miner:

http://oi56.tinypic.com/1eaq36.jpg

Any feedback is also welcome, I know there are a lot of features that still need to be implemented, but as I've said the pool is a work in progress.

Seems reliable and stable so far.  If you aren't looking for an immediate payout (lack of workers) this may be the place to be.

Can't seem to access your front end to register.

The connection has timed out
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The server at pool.bloodys.com is taking too long to respond.

PandaMarketer, are you still having the same problem connecting?

You might've tried to connect while I was doing something to the server today.

Im in. Splitting 400 MH/sec between you and mineco.in for now.

I have 500-650 Mhash/s to add to your server. Ill set it up to start running in the next hour or so after i register.

Hopefully this works well cus ill be adding quite a bit to your 1.5Ghash/s that your site currently shows.

Payout should be nice tho since not alot of people are in on this, but the time will be alot more.

It's all good right now, thanks.

The site doesn't help newbies how to set up a miner.  Yours is the first that does not require a worker name to be prepended with login name. I was lost for like 10 seconds, lol.

I just realized.. you say this is in beta.. but are you using the real block? Are we mining for real, or just for testing on dummy blocks?

Do you think we can solve our first block in less than 5 weeks?
Is there going to be a bounty for the miner who gets the first block solved?
What about giving them the coin fees as a bounty?

Thanks.

The pool is in beta, but it is working on a real block. So when it is solved everyone will get their portion of the reward.

Depending on the block size we can solve it faster or it can take longer time, but that also depends on the total hash rate of the pool, so if it grows significantly we can do it much faster.

We are at 2Ghps as a pool. I think it will be a long time to solve.  But, I hope we get lucky this week!

We are slowly growing and a bit of luck won't be bad... ;)

If you are mining at another big pool you can use this one as a backup, I've just tested it with the backup option of the new poclbm miner and it is working great if your main pool is down it automatically switches back to our pool and then back to the main pool when it is back online again. This way you won't be wasting any of your calculating resources and at the same time help us grow bit by bit ;)

We are up to about 6 GH/s at the moment... ;)

Is it a new poclbm that I can replace the one in my GUIminer?

The latest version of the GuiMiner comes with the new poclbm, so you just need to set the extra parameter --backup= and your backup pool info, you can even set multiple backup pools separating the login info with a coma.

I don't know how to do that. How do I write command-line arguments in GUI miner? Is it in the flags area?

Yes, in the extra flags field you add: --backup=yourworkerusername:yourworkerpassword@pool.bloodys.com:8332

Hope not to be a bother, but do you set that in the MAIN pool, or as a new miner tab?

Also, why use double hyphens? Is this a pheonix command? I'm using OCL.

You set it in the main pool tab, no need of extra tabs.

The backup parameter is only for poclbm which is the default OCL miner for GUIminer.

Doesn't work. it says "--backup" is not a valid argument.  I know I have the latest version because it's the same version number... 2011.06.14

No, that is not the latest version. Download the latest from here: https://github.com/downloads/Kiv/poclbm/guiminer-20110701.exe

The one you are using is not with the latest performance optimizations and does not have the latest poclbm with the backup pool support.

We have found the first block in the pool, once it is confirmed everyone participating will be able to get his share of the 50 BTC...

It has taken us a quite bit of time, but hopefully we'll have better luck with the next block and it will be much smaller ;)

Any chance you can lower the min payout?  0.26 is a weird amount for starters, but at this rate it might be a while before people can cash out with blocks taking this long.