Thanks @all

I already received a couple of messages from people who are interested in either continue running the pool or interested in the pool frontend.

So i decided to make the pool frontend open source and public so everyone can use and customize it. It will take a couple of days until it's ready to be published.

The software is designed for Double Geometric Method only as it comes and the variables f, c and o can be set as you like.

yourbtc.net closing it's doors on 2011-12-08

Hello fellow miners,

it was really a hard decision for me but i'am going to close this pool within the end of day.

I underestimated the amount of time it takes to operate that pool and can't combine it with my fulltime job and private life any longer.
If anyone is interested in taking over the pool, just let me know.

When the poolserver has been shut down, the pool will generate additional "pseudo blocks" on current difficulty until your credit reaches less than 0.00000001 BTC.
So you will receive some additional payouts, just like you would have stopped mining for a while.

Please don't be sad, there are lots of other great pools out there:

- Eclipse MC (http://www.eclipsemc.com) another great double geometric payout pool
- Bitminter (http://www.bitminter.com) another really cool pool, the webfrontend and charts are awesome
- ABCPool (http://www.ABCPool.co) 0% pps, those guys who run this pool have to be crazy not taking a fee

I would like to thank all of you, who trusted in yourbtc.net! Special thanks to Meni who consulted me very well and invented this awesome DGM payout method.

@Mods: please unstick me again, i think Eclipse MC is the pool, that should be sticked instead. Thanks and sorry for inconvinience.

This is, what you are looking for:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=53035.0

We did some polish into the Hall of Fame, so you'll receive a golden/silver/bronze bitcoin medal for top 3 places.

In addition every user can now use the private mail feature on the website to contact other pool member or me, the pool op.

There are still capacitys for new member!

If you looking for a reliable and stable pool and like the thrill of pplns but dislike it's flaw (variance) then the Double Geometric Method we use, could be interesting for you.

yourbtc.net is still on 0% fee and offers special benefits for VIP User who donate at least 3% (currently Instant Payouts and orphaned block insurance). That's a really good offer.

And this could also be interesting:

p2k, a very skilled developer, is working an a poolserver software called ecoinpool.
We are already alpha testing this software in a dedicated enviroment and it has already found it's first bitcoin block on main net.
More details will follow over the next weeks.

Thanks a lot for adding us!

idle since = null means worker is active exactly.

What does confirmed value mean on btc poolwatch? BTC that have to be payed and not payed yet for whatever reason (payout threeshold for example) or do you mean the sum btc that have been payed out so far? The current value of "Confirmed" is btc that have been payed out, if it should be confirmed payout that has to be payed, please change the value to pending_payout.

Great service btw! I like it!

Can you confirm source.local.1.merged.namecoin.localCoinbasing=true is working for you and created at least one valid namecoin block?

You have to:
- grab Android SDK here: http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
- connect your phone to pc with appropriate driver
- grab your private key with help adb.exe: adb /data/data/de.schildbach.wallet/files/key-backup-asn1
- use your private key to reclaim your btc (via mtgox for example)

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Bug Report for poolserverj-0.4.0rc7:

with localWorkGeneration=false i encountered this issue:

* Mining on aux Blockchain seems to be ignored (no longpolls on aux blockchain)

I don't know if you even want anyone use workmaker edition without workgeneration enabled, but the config parameter implies that it should work with workmaker disabled.

If you need more details, i'am happy to help

Cheers,

Chris

[Feature Update 2011-11-22}

Hall of Fame
* Here you can prove yourself and take a look, how you perform in our pool.

Share Payout Comparison
* You find it here: Pool Statistics -> Charts -> Share Payout
* Compare DGM and PPS method on pool history.
* Those numbers are historical values and have no influence on future luck in finding blocks.

@admins: we would appreciate to get this thread sticky, we are already top 10.

@Hotdog453 & @gigavps:
I really hope you won't get GOXED and receive your payment sooner or later there!

We just intruduced the Member Status System!

What does that mean for me?

You will receive special benefits as a VIP Member for donating at least 3% to the pool:

* Instant 100% block rewards
** No more waiting for 120 confirmations until you receive a payout
** You will be payed for invalid (orphaned) blocks too

One of the next planned benefits for VIP Member:
- Cashout your balance according to your score
described by Meni Rosenfeld here: https://bitcoil.co.il/pool_analysis.pdf (Chapter 7.7 Score cashout)

Feature Update 2011-11-19

Direct Namecoin Payout enabled
* Use "User Account -> Pool Options" and disable auto NMC to BTC exchange if you don't want to auto exchange your NMC into BTC.
* If your NMC balance exceed the threshold and you stored a valid Namecoin payout address in your Pool Options payout in NMC will happen.
* Auto convert NMC to BTC is still set as default for new user.

iPhone App BTCmon supports yourbtc.net
* Keep track of your pool stats on your iPhone. To bad i have an android device!

Clarification how to connect your worker
* Please update your worker to connect to mining.yourbtc.net:8999 only for the future.
* Right now you can connect to yourbtc.net:8999 as well, but all traffic is redirected through the webserver which becomes a problem, if the webserver has any issues.
* In order to offer a stable mining enviroment, we will shut down the traffic redirection in a few weeks.

Just my 2cents:

Someone has to pay the bill for pool hopping, to bad those people will be your loyal miner.
Don't put them into a disadvantage again moving your system from a hoppable to another (maybe less) hoppable method.
PPS and DGM will be the future. I think DGM would be perfect for TripleMining, you just have to adjust the parameter to your needs.

Maybe you wanna sleep a night over your decision.

Really no thoughts about variable block rewards?

Pool Ops should consider reading this:
https://bitcoil.co.il/pool_analysis.pdf (Chapter 7.2)
from https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=32814.0

Yep right, you can use whateveryouwant.yourbtc.net or just yourbtc.net. The only important thing is to use Port 8999.

Server Migration completed.

* your miner on yourbtc.net:8999 will be redirected to our new server now
* webserver and poolserver are kept seperated

@pool operators using PoolserverJ,

Here is a feature request, i'am interested in and would like to hear your thoughts about it and if you think of using it too:
https://bitbucket.org/shadders/bitcoin-poolserverj/issue/12/estimated-block-reward-for-each-individual


Here is shadders comment:

This could be useful if you want to credit your miner the right value per share, when the share was submitted.
For pps pools it will become more and more difficult how to credit a share if block reward will cut in a half multiple times in future. Same goes for other payout methods like DGM.

New STABLE server is online!

Please connect your miner to:
mining.yourbtc.net:8999

The website and domain will move to the new server end of this week.

As soon as we migrated to the new server (which could be tomorrow) poolserverj will be updated to the newest release and of course bitcoind 0.5.
When we got that working, the total reward (B) for each submitted share will be block reward + transactionfees that would be incluced if the share would solve the block.

Eta should be next week!