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Hello,

I want to introduce my new pool, here are some basics about PoolMunity (https://poolmunity.com).

I know the design isn't really good, but I hope I can change this soon!
Currently I take a fee of 1,5% of every block.
With this fee I'll make giveaways, pay the server
and eventually hire a professional webdesigner.



Features: - SSL
             - powerful dedicated server
             - multiple workers
             - stable server location in france
             - API (json)
             - periodic giveaways!
             - INSTANT payout (min 0.1BTC)
             - banner with your stats
             - IRC support
             - email alerts on idle miner
             - charts
             - embedded Forum
             - 8 decimals are used for payouts
             - Coins are stored internally as integers for 100% accuracy
             - You can choose between Bitcoin and Namecoin
             - cheat-proof scoring
             - mining on port 80

regards, talpan

Cool, I am in!

We've just added IRC for support and talk.
Feel free to join :).

http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#PoolMunity

regards, talpan

Hey,

I've added banners to show your stats :).


http://poolmunity.com/banner.php?id=1

regards, Talpan

Hello,

I knew it wouldn't be easy starting a new pool, but I don't know what's going.
What do you expect from my pool?
Are there any features that you want to have?

I really would appreciate some feedback :).

regards, talpan

stop triple posting. use the edit button

 :o

It's no security issue, I haven't got a signed SSL certificate yet (it costs about 40$ per year).
I have made myself a certificate which lacks in no way compared to a signed certificate.
Of course, if you don't trust me, you can google it ;).

regards, talpan

I've added a chart to show the server stats over the last day.
More charts comming soon!
Working now on email alerts :).


regards, talpan

Hello,

I've just added email alerts for idle miners.

May be someone is now willing to join ;).

regards, talpan

I've been working on a major upgrade the past days with something unique.
More later this day :).

regards, talpan

Except that it totally lacks any point AT ALL?
Anyone can generate self-signed certs for your domain, and still do MIMT-attacks and similar?

The whole idea with SSL is worthless then, stop using it or do it right.
Take a look at StartSSL or similar (or just pay $9 to get one from namecheap.com - it's not THAT expensive.)

Hello,

I have great news.
I've updated the software to V2.0.
You can now choose between Bitcoind and Namecoin.
I hope you enjoy it, more updates comming soon!


regards, talpan

Edit: And we have now signed SSL Certs, thanks for the tip Jine :).

New users comming in, want to join too?

I'll try to get my minecoin miner online! I'm in!

Welcome Magnet,

just keep your usual settings on your miner and change the url to http://worker:passwort@poolmunity.com:18332/
Let's hit this first block :).

regards, talpan

Not true, it ensures that no eavesdropping can occur between the server you are communicating to/from, assuming dns is trusted. If you import that cert, you'll know something is up if it changes.  A signed by trusted CA cert would make masquerading attacks more obvious. However, no one will take the trouble for a small pool.
Anyway, startssl.com provides free certs. I'm not affiliated with them.

Hello,

in fact I did buy a signed SSl certificate and sadly startssl.com had a view issues and
they are not giving away free SSL certs currently.
But thanks for the hint.

regards, talpan

I'm mining BTC on bitcoins.lc with my PC and Mac GPUs.I get 400M/Hashs (sometimes) doing this.My MacBook Pros CPU is mining namecoins with your pool.Why do I do this? I seek to gain maximum returns on multiple currencies being mined at the same time to prevent missed oppourtunity problems as I'm not yet ready to move into full time NMC mining due to my current setup and limited access to systems outside where I live as the workplace is too far away to use their computers.

My radeon HD 6950 get me 384MHash/s at these settings:
Clock 890MHZ
mem clock 948 MHZ
Volts is 1.1V currently

To get stable clocks at more than 900MHZ+,how much do u need to increase the voltage by to be safe without damaging the card or crashing my system?Thanks.

HI film2240 and welcome,

sorry I can't help you overclocking your card, but I can tell you,
that all (iirc) 6950 are in principle a hd6970 and you can flash the bios
and gain more speed.
And a little note to cpu mining, especially on a macbook,
sadly the results are not worth mentioning.
They consume more power than bring you something.

regards, talpan

Hi,

I'm proud to announce that the first 100 members won't pay any fees for a lifetime!
Get in while there is still room!


regards, talpan
PoolMunity.com (https://poolmunity.com)

I finally found te time to change my setup!

Now mining NameCoins with 1 of my 5770's :)

How do I know I'm one of the first 100? I'm looking for a no fee namecoin pool.

Hi yanz and welcome,

you can see the current usercount if you click on "Members" or if you're in the forum on the bottom.
And yes!, you will pay no fees ;).
There is still room for about 60.

regards, talpan

You'll see the setings when you create a worker.

Only 60 seats left for a lifetime no fee account.
Get them while they are still hot!

Things are running smooth :)

Hopefully I got one of the "VIP" no fee seats !

I think there are enough seats left ;)

I'm in.

Tomorrow i will redirect some of my workers to your server.

Hello and welcome,

have fun at my pool ;).

And by the way there are only 50 seats left for no fees for a lifetime!

Hey Talpan,

Thanks for the mail regarding the stales I had with Phoenix.
I didn't look at the stales because I never had more than 0,5% stales on BTCmin.

Now with "poclbm" my hardware output on my HD5770 increased from 207 to 213Mhash/s and no stales so far!

:)

Hi,

you probably used an old version.
But everything looks just fine, you are most welcome.

And now hit that first block :)

Only 40 no fee accs left :).

We are close to finding a block, I can feel it  ;D

auto payout?

Hi,

yes you can set the required payout amount as low as 0.1.

regards, talpan

Yea,

we finally got our first namecoin block!
I thank our valued member MaGNeT for this great achievement :).

Now keep rolling :)

Hello,

there are only 20 accs left for a lifetime fee-free membership :).

The coins don't show up on my balance yet.
Does it take time to process or is something going a bit wrong?  ;D

Yes you'll have to wait until the block has 120 confirmations.
I will make it a bit clearer asap :)

Yeah we have two more blocks!
Sorry, as you can see there was a delay.
I've found the bug and fixed it, everything is now back to normal.

Yippie 3 blocks!

you store passwords as plaintext  :o
and then you e-mail the password to the person who created the account

there's a few reasons why that's dangerous:
1. if your db gets hacked people's passwords are accessible to the hacker which they use for other sites
2. if my e-mail gets hacked my password is accessible to the hacker which I use for other sites

imagine if Mt.Gox was storing plaintext passwords

Hi,

I do not store the passwords as plaintext.
Only the worker passwords are stored as plaintext,
an attacker could only submit you some hashes :).

ok, but you send them as plaintext to my e-mail  ::)

Let me explain to you how it works:
1. you create a new account and type in the password
2. everything is checked
3. an email is send with your plaintext password
4. the password is encrypted and stored in the database

Now, if you forgot your password, you have to enter a new password,
the old one will not be send to you as plaintext.

;)

yeah, so if my e-mail gets compromised they'll get to change the address my reward is sent to as well
never quite liked the sites that send me my password because I have to make sure to delete the e-mail, clear my trash, etc.

Hi,

I've removed the password from the email.
Thanks for bringing up this issue :)

I'll  jump in for awhile and try your namecoin pool.

Hello and welcome minerT.
And by the way only 10 feefree accounts left.

If you did register today and your worker didn't show up:
the bug has been fixed and everything is working just fine.
I'm sorry for this issue.


And we've reached our 100th member in fact we have already 101,
now with the worker-problem fixed, kick it ;).


regards, talpan

Workers now showing up.  Thanks.

How about some no fee love for member 102? :)

puh puh please? ;)

Hi,

and welcome.
If you open up the main forum page you'll see at the bootom of the page
the total numbers of members registered.
However the memberlist itself doesn't count members, who haven't
activated their account yet.
If they do not activate with in a reasonable time, I'm going to adjust the
fees manually.

regards, talpan

edit: I've deleted 3 spam registration.

PS: now let's hit that long block ;)

Awesome,  I think you should also make a requirement for power contributions too.  IE: 100mhps minimum to reap the benefit.  Just a suggestion.  This way you might get more big contributors.


edit:  I just realized what you meant.  so unactivated accounts will still take priority for the 0% once they become active? Instead of my active account currently working at 300mphs?   ???  that seems a bit off

I've already thought about in various ways,
but I think it's too soon.

I just put in a few extra Mhash to speed up things a bit...

One question: when I set a "payout treshold" it doesn't payout, while it's way beyond treshold.
If I click "instant payout" it pays out, so it doesn't really matter but maybe you can take a look at it  ;D

Hi Magnet,

I've disabled the automatic payout for the beginning cause on very block
and for "every" user there would have been a payout.
I want to give you a little time to set up the treshold.
Automatic payments are probobly activated by tomorrow.

regards, talpan

Automatic payouts are now enabled :).

Thanks!  ;D

Another block was found  ;D

Namecoin difficulty just dropped!

http://dot-bit.org/tools/nextDifficulty.php

yeah, I just started mining them, they're more profitable than bitcoins atm

We found 6 blocks today and the day isn't over yet ;D

8 blocks now  :o
Will we make it to 9 today?  ;D

may be today ;)

and we have 13gh/s

Everything runs smooth :)

Some sort of RPC issue earlier, running strong now though!

28GH/s now :)

Hello,

I'm proud to announce that we will launch a Bitcoin/Namecoin exchange.
It should be finished by tomorrow, or at least by monday.
I'm planning on taking a fee of 0.1% of every transactions.

I'll probably give some little status updates.


regards, talpan

Yeah,

we've hit our first bitcoin block, share the word and let us hit the second block a bit faster ;).

A really big thanks to all our patient miners.

Let's kick some blocks  ;D

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

who found the bitcoin blocks?

Thank you very much :)

We're now cheat-proof!

Excellent - what system are you using and when will it take place?

Hey,

I'm using the method described by Meni Rosenfeld here (http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=4787.0).
It is active effective immediately.

regards, talpan

Sweet! That's my favourite too. Inaba from EclipseMC has some teething problems with it though - apparently it has to manage some very large numbers. You might want to PM him for advice.

If you are not able to connecto to the ports 8332 or 18332,
you can now mine on port 80 :).

 ;D

http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r254/MaGNeT76/poolhoppers.jpg

We don't need grasshoppers... We need miners..."

nice!

Pointed another miner to the pool.
Stales are very low, I like it :)

Hello iopq, 0.60720343BTC have been sent to your address.

Except I was mining NMC... are you going to honor your e-mail and send me BTC instead  :P

My first e-mail told me I got around 1700BTC :P
I like those kind of bugs...  ;D

Well, not everything is perfect ;)
by the way: thanks for the report, I'll fix it torrmow-

NC

Contributed Shares: 4739

stale Shares: 1

 :o

Please join us guys, if you want a "cheatproof" pool :)

Stales are very low!

@ Talpan
I think "merged mining" is the future of both BTC and NC, will Poolmunity be the first to enable "merged mining" as soon as it is available?

Definitely, I've already looked into it and I'm amazed of the concept.
But with the current rate the namecoin blocks are mined this could take a while.

Currently I'm finishing our own Bitcoin/Namecoin exchange, should be finished on saturday :).
May be some more miners come to our pool mine some coins  ;).

Hello,

I'm proud to announce that I finally finished our own Bitcoin/Namecoin exchange.
You can now trade Bitcoins and Namecoins with a fee low as 0.1%.
The minimum amount for a new offer is 0.1BTC/NC.

In order to prevent some errors that might occur, outgoing payments are delayed for 1-2 days.

Happy trading, talpan :)

Come on board and help us finish this block of :)

Lol, using floats for money  :o

I have no Idea what I thought when I wrote this.
This is really a facepalm worth.

Internally bitcoin-values are stored like 100000000 = 1BTC


this would be really lol! :D

joined the pool a week ago...


- very stable
- email alert
- namecoin
- fast support

Hello,

this can't be.
I'd suggest you write me a pm, before you put out something like this.

Some updates:

We have now almost 300 users.
And PPS for namecoins is coming within one week.

Have fun and mine those blocks ;)

Seriously?, why don't you want to join?
What are other pools offering, that i don't have??

PS: If the pool is not starting to get some traffic, I'm willing to sell the source-code, pm with offer!

I will donate 50% of my block earnings to the block finder. At the moment ~ 2.15BTC

come and join us! cheat proof scoring system, later shares are no disadvantage

Hello Miners,

since the pool isn't getting any traffic, I'm shutting it down.
This will happen at the first of september.

And as a quick reminder  there is a ~2BTC bounty for the current and probably last bitcoinblock.

I'm going to sell the poolsoftware and if required the domain too.
If you are interested write an email to talpan@poolmunity.com with your offer
in bitcoins.

Regards,
The PoolMunity Team.

https://poolmunity.com/index.php

Sorry to hear your locking up shop, I like(d) using your calculation tool.

Good luck in your other ventures

The calculator will be used again in my new project, more details next month :).

And I've created a thread with some more information about the poolsoftware, which I'm selling.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=37104.0

regards, talpan