VarDiff has been reduced to 4-4092.

Thanks for the recommendations!

Block bonus of 1 VTC until 3/31/14 

Planning to raise the Pool Fee back to 2%.  As an experiment, I lowered it to 0% and as you can see the pool's luck is less than 100% and I watch the wallet like a madman.  I am afraid it will run out while I am sleeping.  I do have many coins in cold storage, so liquidity is the issue in the long run. 
When I raise the fee, the pool will invest in hardware to scale in Asia and Europe.  Those servers will cost money.  No PPS pools survived in the BTC world or LTC world with a fee at or less than 3%, however, let's try 2% first and hope people donate again.  Oh, transaction fees will be lowered to 0.001 VTC, too.
Donations will be disabled at the same time so miners can reevaluate their donations going forward.  I have to do something or the pool wallet will run out or liquid coins.
Planning to switch on 3/30/14.  I will fund the wallet from cold storage if needed until then. 
Miner input is very important to us at ProjectXPPS.com.  So, please be vocal.

Had to restart stratum, check rigs...efficiency is back  

Update: 99% 

So,  is good. No? Spoken in my excellent Eastern European fake accent

I feel blessed with all the positive feedback.  Thank you, Sir!

The new bootstrap theme combines the desktop and mobile theme into one that can be used for the full pool experience from any device. 


Please report any issues with the site. 

Also, do you have skills on website theming?  Any help or donated work is much appreciated.

Block bonuses are over until the next promo.  Thanks for mining!  112 VTC of Block Bonuses to date

Thank you, the theme still needs tweaking, though.  The team at MPOS does a fine job to help us pool ops.  Pease Donate to the addy on the footer to say thanks to their developers.

Thanks for the feedback, I'll look into the rest in the morning.  Good luck on finding the next block!

Thanks for verifying that the 24 hr VTC rate was fixed...just before bed.

• Average hashrate over 1 hour at that sample time.
• Thanks for the suggestion, I'll keep it in mind, I can see how that would benefit all
• Looks like you are doing good to me. However, I defer to r!ckk as the miner guru.  I find him in webchat on the pool  or  #projectxpps on IRC  he is a great resource for the pool

Block Bonus Grand Finale - 10 VTC Very Limited Time

Hi CHW,

Awesome post! 

A strong community is what I want as well.   Plus,  transparency very important too.

For server performance,  I run multiple monitors to make sure we are within our resources.  We need to scale out at around 250 mhs given our current bandwidth needs.  Hardware is well enough,  but stratum node redundancy, and a dev site are needed to keep the pool up forever.... And enough VTC to pay out on the looooong blocks.  ;-)

Keep us posted on how it going. 

Thank you,
Marty

Promo: Let's race to the top of vertcoin.com ~1 Block Bonus~

Update 19 VTC Left

Restart your browser and try again.  That should work...  LMK if it didn't...  Thanks!!!


Update:

Also, a new poll up here

Cool, I appreciate the feedback.  Thanks Bro!

I looked through the setting and verified that it IS enabled for the pool.  However, I turned it off personally when we had those network problems, since was getting killed in IDLE emails.  So, I turned it back on and I am now waiting for a worker to notify me.  

It should not have been disabled pool wide based on the config, however, I wonder if anyone else is having this issue?

Update: IDLE notices are working for me.  Layyen?

Thank you for sharing!

75VTC paid out to miners as a block bonus, adding some fun to plain old PPS pools.Thanks all!!  Glad to offer it with the help of donations.

Thanks, Bro!


At current N-Factor of 2048, any litecoin hardware comparison guide would be a great place to start.  Your vertcoin results will be 40-50% of the LTC performance for that particular hardware.  And remember, the dev team will actively try keep the coin CPU and GPU only.  Once ASIC is available for scrypt, there is no going back.  All LTC or "scrypt" clones will be move from GPU to ASIC and those miners will move their GPU's to Vertcoin...so we hope ;-)

Furthermore, thank you for mining.  I have set the vdiff very low to make sure you get a share in every block and a chance at the block bonus.

http://www.verters.com/vertcoin-mining-calculator

http://www.coinwarz.com/calculators/vertcoin-mining-calculator

http://www.verters.com/vertcoin-hardware-list

Personally, I find the R9 280x the best card for mining.  We have many 7850's, 7950's, 7970's, R9 270x's, 280x's and 290x's.  290x's are hard to work with but kick ass if you can get a bunch of them at a great price.  We bought a bunch when they first came out and LTC was like $2. Now, 290x's are hard to find or available at a premium.

Also, this guy Jarred Walton  http://www.holynerdvana.com/2014_02_01_archive.html turned me on to VTC when difficulty was like 20...He does awesome work and I credit him for turning me on to Vertcoin.


I am not sure of your familiarity with gpu mining on Linux, however, here is the source https://github.com/Bufius/vertminer-gpu

I'll look more for you later...  Also, we can hop on IRC too on the webchat on the pool. 

UPDATE: I raised the tx fee for all payouts to 0.01 VTC.  If that bug, then raise your payout threshold.  Trying to not charge a pool fee.  Plus, block bonus is now 2 VTC.