Hello,
I would like to announce the availability of the Continuum mining pool. It is new and could use some testing. The pool runs with no fees and is aimed at more serious miners, though all are certainly welcome. The pool supports long-polling and should provide good connectivity to north-american miners. It also supports monitoring of miners; if your miner hasn't submitted a share within a defined period, you will get an email or Twitter to that effect.
Usage:
Simply connect your miner to continuumpool.com port 8332. Use the bitcoin address to which you would like to be paid as the username and use any password. I recommend that you use a different Bitcoin address for each worker so that balances and uptime monitoring can be set per-worker.
The pool provides an RPC interface. It does not provide a web interface, though anyone is welcome to write one. To use the RPC service, connect to
http://rpc.continuumpool.com:8330/rpc and use the following methods.
balance(workeraddr) Returns confirmed unpaid balance
balancecurrent(addr) Current round balance
roundstart() Returns the time of the start of the round.
monitoradd({worker => 'workeraddr', 'contact' => 'mailto:me@mydomain.com', 'sharetime' => '5 minutes', 'name' => 'some descriptive name'}) Adds an email monitor. If the worker hasn't submitted a share in set time, an email is generated
monitordrop({id => monitorid, worker => 'workeraddr'}) Cancels a monitor. Get the ID from the generated email.
Once again, testing and feedback would be greatly appreciated.