[Whats this mean for you?]

Tired of stales?
Tired of the lack of scalability of pushpool?
Tired of downtime?

Come checkout my pool (https://pool.bitp.it), it's entirely custom written in scalable Node and CoffeeScript. Since we don't use pushpool we can offer less stales than any other pool.

Whats this mean for you?

It means a more scaleable pool with less stales than any other pool. While some pools are getting 2%, 3%, and in some cases more. Our pool has virtually no stales. It is not uncommon at all for our members to have stales rates of 0.02%



Why should you care about stales?

Stale shares are a form of "artificial fee" that reduces a miner's earnings. If you are currently receiving a 2% stale rate with pool X and on my pool you're receiving 0.02%, all things being equal you will earn more BTC on my pool.

What have you got to lose?

We are an entirely fee free pool. Come give us a try, you literally have nothing to lose. Compare a week on my pool versus a week on your current pool and let me know what you think. I'd venture to say that you'll like what you see  

[Our pool features:]

bitp.it is proud to announce that we are launching our own GPU/CPU mining pool.

Registration is open, and the URL is https://pool.bitp.it

Our pool features:

• Long polling
• ESMPPS (Equalized Shared Maximum Pay-Per-Share) rewards http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=12181.msg378851#msg378851
• On-demand, full 8-decimal payouts
• Workers have different usernames and passwords from your account (for your security)
• SSL
• JSON API
• 0% fees!
• We don't use pushpool, so we have less stale shares than any other pool!
• X-Roll-NTime support

We have an IRC channel (#bitp.it on freenode) and a support email support@bitp.it in addition to hanging around this forum. So feel free to contact us in whatever method is most convient.

How to connect:

Once you are in, you will be able to register your workers. Each worker will have a random username and password (for your security). We are running on port 8334 of pool.bitp.it. Here is a sample configuration:

Phoenix miner

phoenix.exe -k phatk VECTORS BFI_INT FASTLOOP=false AGGRESSION=12 WORKSIZE=256 -u http://apPw7U1iw2f:YuZ4erYiQyKef@pool.bitp.it:8334 DEVICE=0

Diablo miner

./DiabloMiner-OSX.sh -u apPw7U1iw2f -p YuZ4erYiQyKe -o pool.bitp.it -r 8334 -v 2 -f 20 -w 128

[100% Javascript]

We are launching bitp.it today, a revolutionary 100% Javascript based bitcoin miner that you can easily embed right into your own website. Visitor to your website will run this Javascript seamlessly in the background computing hashs for you, and if a share is found you (the website owner) will receive credit.

We are hoping this will be viewed as an exciting new alternative to banner advertisement that actually has the potential of not being annoying to website visitor and actually generating bitcoins for the website operator.

bitp.it uses Slush's pool, and for the time being we will pay you out your shares in 0.01 BTC increments once a week. We realize there is a lot to be done, and possibly even some bugs along the way, so we are going to not charge any fees of our own for the first month while we iron out some of the details. Slush will obviously take his fees off the top, but other than that your earnings should be passed straight through to you.

Since we are treating this like a beta, we'd love to hear your feedback, good, bad or ugly. Post up here and let us know what you think.

Javascript is just too slow to mine bitcoins. The recent difficulty increases have made this an impractical idea. Couple that with the fact that WebCL is practically non-existant, and what you are left with is an ornithopter.

It is this reason that we started our own pool (https://pool.bitp.it) for people to use their own CPUs and GPUs to mine for bitcoins. It is also this same reason that effective July 9th, 2011 we will no longer be offering Javascript as even an option. All existing users are encouraged to switch to our pool.

We will leave the server side Javascript in-place, so you're existing websites will not attempt to fetch content that doesn't exist. However, the JS on our end will be gutted rendering it non-functional.

Just for recap:

• We will NOT be discontinuing our pool
• All users are encouraged to join our pool
• July 9th will be the last day the Javascript stuff is functional
• July 9th will be the last day we perform payouts

Can someone explain the differences between running bitcoin with the --server option versus compiling it as a daemon and running bitcoind?

Other than the obvious difference, ones a daemon the other isn't, is there any difference in the role they can serve?