I'm hoping to continue at 2% for DGM and 4% for PPS, but really to be sustainable we need to double our block production rate ie pool hashrate. Costs are not halving...
Graet,
If I might be so bold, how do you plan to accomplish this? Sure there will be an increase with ASIC's, but not sure it would double the size of our pool given the overall increase in difficulty...
I'm in the US, anything I can do to help?
-Wave
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Hi Wave,
Well it is between now and asics that concerns me most, looking like 6 weeks to 2 months before they appear.
The best advertising is word of mouth from happy miners
I can promote the pool till I'm blue in the face and get - oh but you are the poolop, you would say that (marketing doesn't seem to be one of my strong points)
Otherwise keeping a well supported and maintained pool that has few issues, runs well and pays out fairly will continue to be an advantage.
From my side I am encouraging miners to move to stratum mining nodes so that we can reduce the number of servers we run and thus costs, we will also be decommissioning the AU www/db server and moving to cheaper hosting overseas ( bandwidth is the killer there).
I also think the next couple of months will sort out the serious players, not just miners but also pools and proxy mining services. We are active, committed to Bitcoin longterm and have always considered ourselves serious players in the market
I will finish with a quote if I may
<MobiusL> Sep 07 23:55:47 <MobiusL> Blaksmith: Mr.Graet is self promoting his own pool - don't listen to him unless you want to deal with a pool that is honest, runs well and is fair across the board
Cheers
Graet