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http://www.kano.is (http://www.kano.is)

CKPool software developed and supported by ckolivas and myself (Kano)

PPLNS Stratum BTC mining pool - N currently set as the network difficulty when the block is found - will be increased as the pool grows.
0.9% fee paid to myself and ckolivas to run and work on development of the pool.
Miner payout includes transaction fees.

Web interface is still in the early stages, so more features will be added as time progresses.
All very basic at the moment.

This is the full pool version of solo.ckpool.org (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=763510.0) with share logging, user statistics, etc

Mining configuration:
Go to http://www.kano.is (http://www.kano.is) and register a username to mine with, by clicking on the Register/Reset button,
or mine directly to the pool without registering, using a bitcoin payment address as your username.
No password is required.

e.g.
./cgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.kano.is:3333 -u Kano.worker -p x
 or
./cgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.kano.is:3333 -u 1KanoiBupPiZfkwqB7rfLXAzPnoTshAVmb_worker -p x

Your worker name can be whatever you choose and will be created when your miner connects to the pool.
Registered username or Bitcoin address, followed by a dot '.' or an underscore '_', followed by a worker name.
If you supply an invalid Bitcoin address, you will be unable to authenticate and mine on the pool.

Pool settings
The pool is configured to start you mining at 1024 difficulty.
The pool adjusts the per instance difficulty to maintain a share rate of approximately 3 shares per 10 seconds.
However, there is a lower limit set on the difficulty of 42.

Coins
The pool itself has no wallet, only bitcoind's running without a wallet.
The Coins go to a separate, unattached wallet that the payouts will come from.

About ckpool
ckpool has been under development this year by the developers of cgminer: ckolivas and myself - Kano.
This is the first public pool using both parts of ckpool, the ckpool mining engine developed by ckolivas and the backend database ckdb - with a basic web front end - developed by Kano

The pool engine has been running smoothly for a while now, while I've been developing the database management of the pool with a simple web interface.
We'll announce the full details about the ckpool software itself in another thread at a later date.

From the start of the ckpool README:
CKPOOL + CKDB + libckpool by Con Kolivas and Andrew Smith.

Ultra low overhead massively scaleable multi-process, multi-threaded modular
bitcoin mining pool, proxy, passthrough, library and database interface in c for Linux.

- reserved -

Kano, I just want to thank both you and ckolivas for all the work you've done to support the mining community and wish you the best of luck with your new pool launch.  Congratulations on getting this off the ground and providing miners with a great pool option!

Best of luck with the pool. Will you pay for orphans and merge mine shit coins? ::)

No alt-coins :)

Locked this one and created a new thread here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=789369.0

Seems I somehow lost the self-moderation tick when I finally clicked on post for this one.