After deliberations with the council, I have opened the registrations back up.  I will be working on the invitation system this week between Xmas parties.  If the pool's hashrate gets too big for the my comfort, I'll close registrations again, and we will go on a invite only system.

Good news is that the pool can handle 350MH+, so woot to us!

LMAO... you guys are too funny.  Thanks for the kind words though, Johndec and 24Kilo.



Sorry, techbytes... I always forget about tag.cryptopools.com.  Another great choice as it's the only(?) PPS pool for Tag.  I would say that Hashfaster, cryptopools.com and tagmining.com would be the top 3 to put in your config.  Your choice on order.


EDIT- registrations are open again.  I will be monitoring the hashrate, but things are business as usual.

I'd have to agree with 24Kilo on this one.  The Hashfaster pool and my own were the only two pools to really stay up to date and working for the miners when we had the coin fork a few weeks back.

I would say try Tagmining, but my pool is currently on closed registration. I am going to start working on implementing the invitation system, so in a few days check the pool thread to see if it's done or not.  If it is, hop on and I'll throw you an invite.

In the meantime, I highly recommend throwing your rigs on Hashfaster and mining there.  They run smooth, and the pool OP is an active member in the forums.  You can take a shot at TAG.cryptopool.IT, but as 24Kilo said, the OP hasn't been responsive lately.

-Fuse

Dabs, give me a day or two to sort some things out and I'll shoot you an invite.

Can someone calculate the global rate right now... what is the cutoff we should be at?

Registrations for Tagmining.com have been closed.  It will remain closed until there is a better spread of hashrate in the Tagcoin network.  I will also be increasing the pool's fees to 2% to encourage miners to spread the hashrate around.

Do not take this as me telling people to leave, but please be smart with keeping the network healthy.

-Fuse

Registrations for Tagmining.com have been closed.  It will remain closed until there is a better spread of hashrate in the Tagcoin network.  I will also be increasing the pool's fees to 2% to encourage miners to spread the hashrate around.

Do not take this as me telling people to leave, but please be smart with keeping the network healthy.

-Fuse

Got a picture?  I'd love to see one of these modded.  PM me if possible, I don't want to crash this thread(even though I already am).

Sorry, ssateneth.

The sata connector would connect to a sata power cable from your power supply.  It looks like the first image in the OP.

Same price.  I'll do a deal on a quantity buy, just let me know how many in PM and I'll shoot you a price.

Welcome aboard Frank!  Enjoy your stay with us

Johndec - I can't put that on the site lol.  I can do the fully clothed pinup style of WW2 though.  Keep it classy lol.

24Kil0 - Good idea on the Library of Congress.  Let me know what you find.

I'm holding a logo and favicon design contest for Tagmining.com.  Info can be found at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=324938.msg4083136#msg4083136.

This is open to anyone that wants to get involved, not just miners on the pool.  This is a great opportunity to earn a little TAG if you're just starting out, or maybe the CPU miners out there with some graphic art experience.

Good luck to those interested, and thanks for taking the time to check it out.

Thanks,

Fuse

Logo/Favicon design contest

I would like to have a logo and favicon design contest for the pool.  I've been thinking about doing a t-shirt or sticker or whatnot, as well as sprucing up the pool and the OP of this thread.  So here's some info:

I'd like a logo that would site in the OP of this thread and the news page on the pool.  That way when visitors come to this thread or the pool, that's the first thing they see.  It should be somewhere in the 500 - 700 pixel wide range.  I'd prefer the height to follow a 16:9 ratio, so an example size would be 600x337px.  The design has to be original to mining pools in general(not the crossed pickaxe and shovel logos), but does not need to be original artwork.  It can be a photoshopped mashup as long as it is aesthetically appealing and original to the mining community.  As far as style of the design, here's some things I like design wise:

• WW2 Pinup girl art - I searched for an classic style pinup girl with a pickaxe and miners helmet, but had no luck.  It has to be the classic color and design of WW2 era pinups.
• WW2 / cold war propaganda posters - mainly the Soviet industrialists style
• Modern branding art - integrating the pool name into a shape or design

The favicon is the standard favicon size.  I'd like it to relate to the logo if possible.  You don't have to design both, but combined designs win extra points with me.

I have yet to decide on a reward, but I'm thinking 20-30TAG and a t-shirt or sticker if I decide to make them, plus credit on the pool and in the OP of this thread for bragging rights.

Anyone is welcome to participate in the contest, even if you are not a miner on the pool or a member of the TAG community.  This would be a good way to earn a little TAG if you're just getting started.

Ready, set, go!

-Fuse

Ok... rule has been added to the jackpot info post on page 1.

I'm going to double post right now... so be warned.

The coin behind it, or the jackpot system?

The coin comes from fees and donations.  The system is outlined in the second post of this thread.  But the TLDR version is if you submitted shares to at least 75% of all the rounds between midnight Sunday morning (00:00 UTC) and 12 noon Saturday afternoon (12:00 UTC), you're eligible for the jackpot.  The eligible miners are put into a spreadsheet and a random number function is called to select 3 miners, one after the other to find the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners.  I might do a quarterly jackpot as well... but that's just a thought on a piece of scrap paper right now.  Like take all the miners that were eligible for the weekly jackpot, and if you were on the list at least 75% of the time for the quarter, you're eligible for the quarterly draw.  IDK though... just a thought.

Grats, totmacher.

I wanted to ask the active miners what they think about something.  It seems that unless we get more dedicated miners, we're going to have roughly the same group of people on the jackpot list every week.  Should I set the rule that if you win one week, you can't win the next week?  You could of course win the week after that though.

Pretty straight forward change... any ideas/concerns?

Sounds good, mate.

Thank for the info, yorich! 

ssateneth, what are you pricing these per riser?  I'm trying to gauge my options.

-Fuse

I'm all over fans and cooling pages now lol... you two got me thinking farms instead of rigs.

2nd Jackpot

Alrighty folks, here's the info:

There were 444 total rounds for the week.  To be eligible for this jackpot, you would have needed to submit shares to 75% of those rounds, equaling 333 rounds.  There were 15 people, including myself, who qualified for the jackpot.  This was out of 195 miners who mined on the pool this week.  The qualifying miners are as follows:

AFKMPEG
elloi
flywin
jebshka
johndec
kubur
mevecco
Namamonkee
ny2cafuse (not eligible of course)
TagCoinDaddy
TagThePinkPanther
totmacher12000
vesperwillow
wujizhu
zybqe177

This week's jackpot was a double jackpot purse carried over from last week due to the server issues we were having.  This week's and last week's total fees and donations equal roughly 175TAG.  I'm putting up 25TAG to round it out to 200TAG.  So half of that, the total jackpot purse, is 100TAG.  This might seem low compared to the first jackpot, and the fact that we've grown substantially.  However, the first jackpot covered 2 weeks of mining with a higher donation percentage from our early adopters and myself, and a 50TAG pay in by me to pad the wallet for the first couple weeks.  So going forward we should roughly be around a 100TAG jackpot payout.  If we are short, I will pay in to round it up to 100TAG, and if it is higher, I will leave it as is.

This week's winners are as follows:

1st place - totmacher12000  50TAG  - 2d12793fa014b7762c2d6792df5ff8853528ec9990a2d83fe8326361c4677e5a
2nd place - AFKMPEG           30TAG  - c12cca6f7061ac1bee8a68e6d9d211a4712fa747029b47b345b771822e88381e
3rd place - kubur                 20TAG  - 812c8df8d7f4a053698a4f4b17260057ce903bc7b18ebccb4e4d08b79ea09bc6


Payments will be sent shortly, and TXID numbers will be posted above.

Congratulations, miners!  Good luck to everyone next week!

-Fuse

I'll be trying it out as well on a UD3 board.  I just need to wait on the replacement PSU to get here, as the one I was shipped was DOA.  Bastages!

I'll have to roll some with some wifi on it though, so I'll be doing a bit of tweaking... but I'm excited to try it out.