The serial numbers are done per currency instead of per denomination for simplicity reasons during production.

The certificates are printed in sheets and each sheet contains 3 certificates of mixed denominations (e.g top: 0.1 BTC, middle: 1 BTC, bottom: Generic). This is done to keep the amount of fixtures and stencils that need to be custom made to a minimum.
With the above mentioned aggregation of multiple denominations per sheet we only need one stencil for BTC instead of 3 if we kept the denominations all separately. The serial numbers are printed from top to bottom (e.g top one is 1, middle 2, bottom 3).
Let‘s assume that 0.1 BTC is at the top of a sheet, then the serial numbers for 0.1 BTC are always 1+(x*3) e.g 1,4,7,10...

I hope this answers your question.

>>Received two free non denom BTC notes as promised. Thankyou!

Most welcome - we are sorry for the trouble for US customers which we are currently unable to serve, and we felt it only proper with the small token gift - with the time and effort you spent when this was unclear.
For everyone else - yes - the shopping basket is now online, so it is possible to do a mixed order of different certificates.

>> I know you have higher denominations. Its a shame the only way to buy them will be loaded. But do you really think anyone will load a paper wallet not made by themselves with 10BTC? That's quite a lot of money to trust someone else who made the private keys.

We cannot stress it enough: Never ever buy a product with 3rd party generated keys from 'someone' on the internet, and use it for storing large amounts of cryptos! Not even when they, like we do, have a 3rd party audited & notarized production process (https://files.bitcoinsuisse.com/assets/pdf/Public_Deed_Confirmation.pdf). This leaves 2 questions

1) Why do we enforce loading of denominated certificates?

2) Why do we offer lg. denominated certificates at all, given the 3rd party generated key problem, audited or not? When we even warn against it?

As to (1) - we have been making '3rd party passable pater wallets' aka. 'physical bitcoin' since 2014. Originally we allowed them to be purchased 'unloaded'. Unfortunately it did not take long before we had people approaching us with a "I bought this 1 BTC certificate from someone for 560 USD - now please load it".... From then on - we decided to enforce loading 'when buying' - except for the generic, non-denominated certificates. Casascius himself also learned this the hard way.

As to (2) - In Europe we are the oldest and largest crypto financial service provider, broker and custodian in the market, active since 2013. Basically we are the Coinbase or Gemini of Europe. Certificates / paper wallets are not a part of our core business, it is a (historic) service we provide with a view to a) marketing b) serving a niche need of our clients.
For about 10'000 clients, we store almost 2Bn of crypto assets including about 2% of every Bitcoin every mined. For those of our clients where we have worked together for years - and who trust us with millions of dollars of assets, it is not a big leap of faith to order a 10 BTC note, and use it for perhaps a significant present to their children, business partners or as a rare collectible.

Please also note what we have 10 milliBit and 100 milliETH certificates on the way - a more manageable amount.

For the rest of you, who do not know us - yes - it makes no sense what-so-ever. Nor should you ever trust any person or company with 10 BTC or even 1 BTC - unless you fully know who you are dealing with!

Still you have the option of using the generic certificates, with or without loading small amounts on them, as a cool way to make a present or an offline transaction - and perhaps afterwards show the receiver, if not already in the know, how to sweep the wallet. And you at least have the benefit and peace of mind of knowing, that no-one to our knowledge the past 5 years, had a bad experience with our paper wallets.

Take the certificates for what they are nothing more - and we certainly do not hide the risk involved with 3rd party generated keys (see opening post). Yet, just as many people for a specific reason or with a specific need turn over their assets to centralized exchanges or service providers, as can it make sense to do it on paper wallets in a few, limited use-cases, even with the risks involved.

>> Have you considered perhaps selling them unloaded if they are never sold in the future?

Historically - we always sell out. But as stated, this is not a business for us - rather a service and a labor of love.

>>And if so to protect against any scam perhaps stamp unloaded in a neat way on the side or across the face diagonally?

That would of course be possible. If clearly and unmistakably marked in a permanent way that the certificate is unloaded - we could provide you such a note, unloaded. But we wouldn't produce then in scale as a product, as you are the first ever such request we had.

Dear Everyone,

While we previously worked under the assumption that US customers could order certificates via mail, this unfortunately turns out not to be the case.
Bitcoin Suisse is currently not allowed to handle orders from US citizens, green card holders or residents of the United States of America, due to FATCA regulation. At present, this also regrettable means means that we cannot sell crypto-certificates to said group. We a forced to refer to US customers to seek our the certificates from 3rd parties and re-sellers. Should this change, we will let the community know.

US customers whom have tried to order have been notified directly and have been offered a private gift of 2x generic certificates from our founder and chairman, as compensation for trouble and time spent.
For everyone else, the much vaunted shopping basket will be up and running from the 12th and onward.

We regret the inconvenience for all US customers!

/Bitcoin Suisse - Certificate Team

>>which is why BitcoinSuisseAG may be suspicious of this particular lot. 

We are not suspecious - everything looks perfect! The same is true for the track record of all involved. Actually, this very example was signed by the person, writing this message (me). 
But as a matter of company policy, we always withhold payment until we have the product back and have checked its integrity. Please do not see this as any sign of suspecion. As mentioned, all looks perfect.
We are happy to buy back our old certificates, also at a premium, as we still get requests for the original Series I certificates. And thus we make this offer, should the owner wish to use it.

>>Thanks for the offer however I prefer to keep it for any less than my asking price.

Perfectly understandible and as we stated, we hope only you get the best price possible! Nevertheless - should you need now or in the future, our ~1000 USD premium offer for this package, stands.

>>Please delete all the KYC documents for all the USA customers getting denied, including my own. Thank you.  

Of course - that will be done for all relevant cases!
Bitcoin Suisse is a Swiss financial intermediary, more than 6 years in the market - and undergoing licensing for becoming a Swiss bank (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4BRg3C5ZcU). We are very careful with private client data and privacy in general, and as we cannot (not by our choice) currently accept US clients, you can trust we will delete all private information relevant to US client applicants.

We would offer 1.2 BTC for the Bitcoin Suisse certificate package - if interested. We'd however ask that we get to check it first.
But of course we cross fingers you get an even highter price.

Write us at certificates(at)bitcoinsuisse.com if interested.

Thank you for the interest & feedback to everyone. We'd like to address the various questions, one by one:

>>Are there any country restrictions for ordering the loaded BTC notes?

Bitcoin Suisse is unfortunately prevented from onboarding as clients, US citizens, green card holders, or residents of the United States of America, due to FATCA regulation.
We also had for the same reason, technical issues with sending text messages as part of the onboarding, to US clients.


Those US customers who tried to onboard but were prevented, we will contact by email today.

>>Can  you please publish on how many notes of each denomination will be issued?

We have updated the certificate page (https://www.bitcoinsuisse.com/crypto-certificates/) with production numbers for Series II (just under 18'000 produced in all denominations).
We have also added info about the soon to be released Series III.

>>Also as a USA based customer your text ID confirmation does not work.
>>All US-based people I talked to could not get through this step.
>>So I cannot complete registration and purchase your wonderful notes!

Please read above - hope the situation is addressed.

>>Another question...
>>Do the Notes have to be funded?
>>Can they be left empty regardless of face value?

All notes/certificates with an on-printed denomination HAS to be funded. We do not allow unfunded, denominated notes to circulate, as they may (and will) be used to defraud 3rd parties to believe that they are paid in funded, physical crypto.
We do however have a number of 'generic' certificates available (in BTC, ETH, BCH, BSV & XCHF) with no on-printed denomination. These can be purchased un-funded.

>>I tried to register, but why are you asking for so many documents such as Passport just to place an order?
>>Perhaps I didn't understand the concept of Bitcoinsuisse...


We do not make a business of the certificates themselves. Instead, we hope to see people onboard as Bitcoin Suisse clients to purchase the certificates, and perhaps, stay on as clients.

While the price of each certificate is currently rather high (20 USD), this comes from the limited number produced and all the effort which went into it, and all in all, we're not earning anything on Series II even if sold out. We hope however to be able to drop the price somewhat with Series III, as many of the processes, materials and other certificate parts, developed for Series II, can be re-used.

>>Hi there I cannot get through phone verification or the process. Can I purchase from you on forums and send BTC

>>Same, I would like to get one but it seems there are just too many hurdles for this collectible, I hope that gets fixed soon.

We are streamlining the process. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

>>Wanted to order a couple but this is just...
>>First all of these useless verification steps. Then finally, I can log in I can't see any of the notes and their prices before I make a deposit. (hard since I don't know what they cost...)
>>Ok, so I deposit some BTC -> wrong again, apparently, you need fiat in your account to click the "Order crypto certificate" button.
>>So I trade my BTC into CHF (where I need to pay a commission fee for) -> nice I can finally see the certificate page, but then again not clear what to do.
>>Are these notes funded or not? For example, if I pick the 0.1 BTC one this is not calculated with the total. On the bottom there is a submit button -> no idea when I press this if my order is completed...(not gonna hit >>that button before i know if they are funded or not)
>>I want to order more than 1 notes but that seems not an option, you need than to order every note separately and pay shipment for every note lol

Thank you for your feedback.
We made the erroneous assumption that this product would mainly be interesting for our clients, and we assumed we would be helpful, if costs were deducted directly from our clients' various Bitcoin Suisse accounts.
We now see that this is not the case, and will likely switch to an invoice based system for certificate ordering, making the process for those who wish to order, much more streamlined.
We also made a mistake in allowing only 1 type of certificates to be selectable in each order (but multiple numbers). This is, of course, unfortunate in case one wants many different certificates in the same order, because of shipping costs. We will, however, short term, merge orders from the same client of multiple different certificates, to include shipping only once. Long term (in 2 or 3 weeks) we will shift the ordering process to allow multiple different certificates in the same order, and shift towards an invoice based system. This should address all the topics you mention and simplify the process. We regret the inconvenience.

>>We definitely need some clarification

We hope this post has provided clarification.

>>Roger Ver in da house !

Yes - and we gave him a framed version of the BCH certificates, which he appreciated very much :-)

>>Can you also explain why your online site has no Cart or Basket feature as this is causing a silly amount of extra cost in postage for orders.
>>1999 called, they want their eCommerce software back ...

We realize this and we apologize. We simply made some wrong assumptions, expecting little interest in 'multiple mixed orders'. You will have the basket there in maximum 2-3 weeks, and until then, we will manually merge orders. Sorry for the inconvenience.

>> I have forgotten, BTC, BCH, BSV, XCHF, ETH and XTZ certificates are on sale. gn.

Yes and we added some information about the upcoming Series III on the certificate page, where both new assets and denominations will be added.

>> But I have yet to hear a response from anyone at all..... I even pointed them back here to reply to questions!

We regret the late reply.

>> Those paper bills looks beautiful, but I have few questions:
>>- What is minimal denomination we can choose for BTC and ETH?
>>- How do you send certificates to other countries and is it safe?

The minimal denomination is ‘Generic’ – aka. “no printed value on the certificate”. Only the currency symbol and you can load on whatever you wish.
The smallest denominated BTC certificate at the moment is 100 mBit (0.1 BTC) and the smallest denominated ETH certificate is 1 ETH. Series III will include a 10 mBit certificate (0.01 BTC).

**

We hope all questions were addressed & we thank you all for the feedback and for the interest in this product. You are of course also very welcome to write (info@bitcoinsuisse.com) or call Bitcoin Suisse (+41 41 660 00 00) should you have other questions, or simply write the questions here in this thread.

We have just released a follow-up series to our old 2014-series of Physical Bitcoin Certificates:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5187276

Bitcoin Suisse - Physical Bitcoin/Crypto Certificates - Series II



Following up on our 2014 Series of high quality paper wallets / physical bitcoin/crypto 'bills', we have released a Series II :

https://www.bitcoinsuisse.com/news/bitcoin-suisse-launches-new-crypto-certificate-series

https://www.bitcoinsuisse.com/crypto-certificates

https://www.bitcoinnews.ch/17777/bitcoin-suisse-launches-all-new-crypto-certificate-series/bitcoin_certificates_16/

http://fintechnews.ch/blockchain_bitcoin/bitcoin-suisse-launches-new-crypto-versions-of-banknotes/30778/

Similar to the original 2014 series, the certificates are high quality 'paper wallets' complete with key pairs, and thus not IOU's or a claim against any 3rd party. They are thus what is called 'physical bitcoin' which is a wallet, where the private key is hidden until accessed, and where accessing it leaves clear visible traces on the wallet, a concept first mass produced by Casascius / Mike Caldwell in his famous series of various coins issued between 2009 and 2013 (and by us since 2014). This makes them usable for being passed between 3rd parties, but does naturally also introduce the problem of '3rd party generated keys'.

Unlike the original version, the Series II covers several crypto-assets in multiple denominations. It is produced in a banknote quality, contains great number of security features and involve Swiss notaries on the auditing side of the generation, handling and destruction of the private keys, ensuring that each certificate contains the ONLY version of the private key associated with it.

For those interested, they can be ordered the the Bitcoin Suisse - Online platform https://online.bitcoinsuisse.com

Crazyearner,

We are not quite sure by what you mean when you state "hashrate problems". We have many successful miners that are pleased with our pool.

We have zero intentions of hosting an Ethereum Classic pool. We proudly support the hardfork decision.



un4given,

Your mining software may not be setup properly, please submit a support ticket on our website or email support@alpereum.zendesk.com and we will assist you.

/The Alpereum Team
Swiss Crypto Mining & Mining Pools

There is still plenty of slots open in our second feedback round!

We encourage any miner with over 40 MH/s to come over and try us out for 72 hours.

40+ MH/s = 5 ETH Feedback Reward

100+ MH/s = 10 ETH Feedback Reward

Please read the original post above for more information.

/The Alpereum Team
Swiss Crypto Mining
info@alpereum.ch

We apologize for any issues you may of had with the pool, and all of our hashrate is back. There was a pool restart due to some updates prior to our second feedback round.

We have launched a second round of our Feedback Rewards and you are more than welcome to join - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1541453.0

If you have any other issues, questions, comments, or concerns please submit a support ticket for more immediate support.  

Our first feedback round was a success, and we have added several new features, optimizations and enhancements to our pool, based off the feedback we received from our miners in round one.

However, Alpereum strives for perfection and we are initiating a second round of feedback rewards. And we welcome you all to join: https://www.alpereum.ch/join-pool/

Miners who join our pool with at least 40 Mh/s combined for a minimum of 72 hours, and take the time to write a ticket (https://alpereum.zendesk.com/hc/en-us / support@alpereum.zendesk.com) with their feedback after the 72 hours have expired, will receive a 5 ETH bonus, in addition to payouts received by the pool in the period.

Miners with rigs of a combined > 100 Mh/s will receive a 10 ETH reward, in addition to payouts received by the pool in the period.

The top 3 most valuable feedback submitted will be awarded an additional +10 ETH.

Please notify us with a support ticket (https://alpereum.zendesk.com/hc/en-us or support@alpereum.zendesk.com), if you wish to participate in the program, and list your mining address.
At the end of the 72 hours, upon having submitted your feedback, we will send you your reward directly to your mining address. You are free to redirect your miner(s) if you so desire after this period.

The Feedback Reward Program is available for the first 25 miners who sign up to participate. Miners who are already with us or have been, are also welcome to participate. So are miners, who participated in previous rounds of the Feedback Reward Program. First come, first serve.
We will write here once the program is full and enough miners have been enlisted for this particular round.

* Returning / current miners should clear their browser cache before reporting feedback on the UI

Please provide both your positive and (equally important) negative feedback. Logged data and/or screenshots of relevance are greatly appreciated. Feel free to include feature suggestions, but exclude the following, which are already planned into our DEV road-map in the near future:

- 12 Hour Payouts
- Optional notification on idle/malfunctioning miners
- Global pool mining rewards payout transparency

New Pool Features

Aside from countless optimizations and improvements to UI and statistics, since our feedback v. 1 – we now boast the following new key features.

Stratum V2 Support

Alpereum now boasts complete Stratum V2 support, we modified our existing stratum code so that it is compatible with both V1 & V2 so no need to mine on a separate port to utilize Stratum V2. We recommend you use Ethminer Genoil to utilize Stratum V2. Many of our miners have reported increased stability and performance using Stratum V2.

Multiple Static Difficulty Ports

We now have multiple ports set on static difficulties, so you can pick the best difficulty for your mining operation. Generally speaking, this was previously a taboo thing for a pool to do. Before we investigated and fixed the issue, malicious miners used to be able to submit the same block header hash across multiple ports to scam an unsuspecting pool. Our development team figured out a way to patch this to permanently prevent that from happening. Now we are happy to offer to our miners multiple static difficulties so they can better optimize their miners!

Current Static Diff Ports:

3000 - 500 Million
3001 - 1 Billion
3002 - 2 Billion
3003 - 3 Billion
3004 - 4 Billion
3005 - 5 Billion
3006 - 6 Billion
3007 - 7 Billion
3008 - 8 Billion
3009 - 9 Billion
3010 - 10 Billion

Variable Difficulty (Beta)

We have developed our own Variable Difficulty, also known as VARDIFF. Before we ventured into the development of Variable Difficulty, we looked at other pools that have tried VARDIFF with Ether and failed. We realized they were trying to implement a version of VARDIFF that is great for use on Bitcoin/Bitcoin clones but for Ether it is not good at all. So we had to re-invent the way that VARDIFF works entirely for Ether.

Keep in mind that Variable Difficulty is still in a Beta stage, but we believe it to be good enough for the public to utilize.

The VARDIFF system will re-target your miner on a certain difficulty every 10 minutes, until it finds a difficulty to where your miner will be able to submit approximately 1 share every 10 seconds. It may take a few hours until your miner finds the perfect difficulty. If your miner is disconnected for any reason or times out from the pool (30 minutes) the VARDIFF system will start over again. This is why we offer three different starting difficulties for VARDIFF, so in the event your miner is disconnected you at least start at a difficulty that is somewhat close to where you need to be.

VARDIFF Ports:

4000 - Starting Diff 300 Million
4001 - Starting Diff 1 Billion
4003 - Starting Diff 3 Billion
4005 - Starting Diff 5 Billion

If you are un-sure of what Difficult you need to start on, then we suggest you use port 4001.

Less Invalid Shares

During our first feedback round, many miners expressed concerns about a somewhat higher number of invalid shares as compared to other pools.
We have addressed this issue, and our developers took a deep dive into the pool code finding and fixing various issues. With our new rolled out update, there is way less invalid shares for miners and in general more stability for miners. If you experienced an invalid share issue in the past with Alpereum, we highly suggest that you come back and give it another shot. Especially on Stratum V2.

New Global Servers

During our first feedback-round we realized that our global locations (North America and Asia) had a lot to be desired of in terms of latency and performance. We co-located several new v5 Skylake servers to new datacenters in both North American and Asia. Guaranteeing better latency, uptime, and performance for our non-European miners.

On https://www.alpereum.ch/join-pool/ our various global options are available. We recommend you pick the one which gives you the lowest latency (usually your geo-local server), but be sure to include feedback on both your geo-local server as well as our main (European) server, should the geo-local server not perform as expected.


We hope to once again see strong participation in our 2nd feedback round. Happy mining everyone.

/The Alpereum Team
Swiss Crypto Mining
info@alpereum.ch

Thank you for your concern, we have fixed the issues.

Blocks were still being mined during those periods, they were just not being accounted for in the payout system. Specifically due to some last minute updates with geth due to the recent DAO attack. We fixed our systems and all blocks were accounted for properly and paid out to all miners. We apologize for the any inconvenience this may have caused you, this past week has been rocky with pool restarts and issues mainly related to the unrest in the Ethereum community as a whole. The pool is currently back online and in perfect working order.

Our larger miners are mostly back, part of this was because we had an issue in our own mining facility.

If you have any other issues, questions, comments or concerns please do not hesitate to contact us.

You should utilize port 3001, 1 Billion Difficulty.


Port 3000 is useful for lower hashrate miners, such as those mining on a single GPU.

Port 3001 is the recommended port currently if you are not sure, especially since a majority of purpose built mining rigs are around the 80-150 MH/s mark currently. Even if you have several workers, they are still separate miners.

Port 3002 can be utilized as well, it is set at 2 billion difficulty and is a standard at other pools.

Further ports are meant for users that are renting hashrate, where all the workers are funneled through one proxy and appear as one worker. Also users that are utilizing Sammy007's proxy etc.

Generally speaking, multiple static diff ports was previously a taboo thing for an Ethereum pool to do. Before we investigated and fixed the issue, malicious miners used to be able to submit the same block header hash across multiple ports to scam an unsuspecting pool. Our development team figured out a way to patch this to permanently prevent that from happening.


We also currently have an experimental version of Variable Difficulty (VARDIFF) we are working on. We had to re-invent the way VARDIFF works for Ethereum. It cannot be compared to a Bitcoin/Bitcoin Clone type of pool that utilizes VARDIFF. The current VARDIFF system will re-target your miner every 10 minutes, trying to find the perfect difficulty so that you are submitting a share every 10 seconds. It may take a few hours until that diff point is found, and currently if you disconnect or timeout (30 minutes) you will have to start over again. That is why we offer several different starting difficulty points for VARDIFF.

Variable Difficulty is still in experimental/testing stages. Use at your own risk.


VARDIFF Ports:
4000 - 300 Million Starting Diff
4001 - 1 Billion Starting Diff
4003 - 3 Billion Starting Diff
4005 - 5 Billion Starting DIff

Stratum V2 Support for Ethminer-Genoil Added!

Our unique stratum code supports both Stratum V1 & V2 on the same ports, no need to set anything special. Both V2 from Ethminer-Genoil or V1 from Eth-Proxy will work on the same port!!!

Use the following example code below to mine using Stratum V2 on our pool:

AMD

Nvidia

Locations:

Pool.Alpereum.ch - Europe
USA.Alpereum.ch - North America
Asia.Alpereum.ch - Asia

Multiple Static Diff Ports:
3000 - 500 Million Diff
3001 - 1 Billion Diff
3002 - 2 Billion Diff
3003 - 3 Billion Diff
3004 - 4 Billion Diff
3005 - 5 Billion Diff
3006 - 6 Billion Diff
3007 - 7 Billion Diff
3008 - 8 Billion Diff
3009 - 9 Billion Diff
3010 - 10 Billion Diff

@crazyearner

Thank you for your feedback! We will answer it in detail later, but right now, we do not want to take away attention from the Feedback Reward Program, which we just launched: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1492337.msg15198142#msg15198142
Your trial ends in 24h - and rest assured, we are watching your data carefully and we consider your feedback very valuable. You will receive exact feedback on your payouts in comparison with statistics.

Can we ask you to submit your feedback as well as a ticket (https://alpereum.zendesk.com/hc/en-us / support@alpereum.zendesk.com)? This helps us collect, categorize, distribute and properly handle all the feedback.

We will be the first to admit that our pool had much room from improvement from our first, initial launch - but we do now truly believe we have one which can compete with the best.

>>also see you now added in Stratum V2 support do you have separate ports for this or upgraded to v2 on all port?

This point we can answer right away. It will be offered on different ports. The same is true for low difficulty (for slow miners) and different payout schedules (yes - some miners find our 30 min fast payout default schedule annoying and prefer fewer daily payouts), all which will be available on different ports.

>>Well if you are free over the coming weekend could have a catch up on Skype if you like throw you some ideas for improvements and do some testing for you too if like. Will shoot you a pm with my Skype addy in and am currently on now if you free to chat.

We would very much appreciate that. We will contact you to schedule such a meeting. Your help has been so very appreciated, and has helped us greatly in improving our pool. We are very committed to creating the best possible pool solution, and while Rome was not built in one day, this is exactly what we will do.

/Niklas Nikolajsen
Alpereum.ch
Mail: info@alpereum.ch
T:  +41 41 544 12 51

Lättichstrasse 1
CH-6340 Baar
Switzerland

Thank you again for the feedback!

We have not yet added Stratum V2 support, but it is on the table for the near future.

We have a possible solution for different difficulties for different types of hashrates. It is currently in the testing phase, we will update this thread if we decide it is something we want to implement or not after testing and tweaking.

* FEEDBACK REWARD PROGRAM - 1ST ROUND *

After a number of upgrades to both core, features and user experience. As well as a growth to > 10 Gh/s, we would like to announce a program for feedback rewards.

Miners who join our pool with at least 40 Mh/s combined for a minimum of 72 hours, and take the time to write a ticket (https://alpereum.zendesk.com/hc/en-us / support@alpereum.zendesk.com) with their feedback after the 72 hours have expired, will receive a 5 ETH bonus, in addition to payouts received by the pool in the period.

Miners with rigs of a combined > 100 Mh/s will receive a 10 ETH reward, in addition to payouts received by the pool in the period.

Top 3 valuable feedback will be awarded an additional +10 ETH.

Please notify us with a ticket, if you wish to participate in the program, and list your mining address. At the end of the 72 hours, upon having submitted your feedback, we will send you your reward directly to your mining address. You are free to redirect your miner(s) if you so desire after this period.

The Feedback Reward Program is available for the first 25 miners who sign up to participate. Miners who are already with us or have been, are also welcome to participate. Also miners who participated in previous rounds of the Feedback Reward Program *. First come, first serve. We will write here once the program is full and enough miners have been enlisted for this particular round.

* Returning / current miners should clear their browser cache before reporting feedback on the UI

Please provide both your positive and (especially) negative feedback. Logged data and/or screenshots of relevance are greatly appreciated. Feel free to include feature suggestions, but exclude the following, which are already planned into our DEV road-map in the near future:

- Different ports for different payout schedules (12h / 24h, in addition to default)
- Low difficulty ports for slow miners
- Optional notification on idle/malfunctioning miners
- Stratum V2 support
- Global pool mining rewards payout transparency

Once the feedback program ends, we will improve our pool based on the collected feedback. We will then launch a 2nd round of the Feedback Reward Program.

Join info: https://www.alpereum.ch/join-pool/

Happy mining everyone!

/The Alpereum Team

Thank you for the nice feedback.
We did however see much room for improvement from our first release 10 days ago, both in the user experience, the performance - and in features. We thus recommend you clear your browser cache, and revisit https://www.alpereum.ch/

>> If you are planning on adding more crypto in the future

We will. Also Bitcoin. But first we need perfection on our first pool - the ETH pool.

>>Evening admin. Your pool and details and review now added into my thread

Thank you! Where do we find the link? Can we perhaps ask you back and review our v. 2? If you choose to do so and stay 24 or 48h to collect data, for a thorough review, we would be happy to pay you 10 ETH.
We feel that nothing is more important than accurate user feedback.

>> I have had a 5 day long stretch and pay is almost half of what I normally generate. Dont get me wrong pool is fine to mine on just not seeing higher or better results then when I mine elsewhere.

This is crucial feedback - and contrary to our own tests vs. the other major pools.
Would it be possible to ask you back as outlined above, and that you send us an email with your address, and that we run tests over 24 or 48h to see if your performance deviates from what it should be statistically?
Perhaps there could be a problem with your specific setup, and if so, we much need to detect it!
As mentioned above, we would be happy to pay you a fee for your trouble. Without user feedback, we cannot improve!

As most major pools, we publish our performance (the so-called "luck" page) for all to see, how the pool performs against the raw, cold reality of statistics: https://www.alpereum.ch/performance/


>>It's due to the low hashrate on this pool. Too bad it's gonna die too soon.

We do not plan on dying. Alpereum is run by Bitcoin Suisse AG, one of Europes largest crypto-financial brokers, and the expenses tied to development and server infrastructure, is one happily carried for the good of the ETH eco-system.
Our hash-rate is now in excess of 10 Gh/s, which is approximately 1 block/h at current difficulty. Our low uncle rate suggest very good connectivity. Our tests now show comparable results to the larger pools, and in some cases, better results.

It is for the market (the miners) to decide if they will let Alpereum grow to a notable size. But the Alpereum pool will remain all the way to proof-of-stake, and it will be both maintained and improved till such time that pools are no longer needed for efficient ETH-mining.

/Niklas Nikolajsen
Alpereum.ch
Mail: info@alpereum.ch
T:  +41 41 544 12 51

Lättichstrasse 1
CH-6340 Baar
Switzerland