Jonny's Mining Emporium (bravo-mining.com)

[jonnybravo0311]

So we all know what happened with Nexious, and a bunch of people got burned.  We also know that it seems to be the latest fashion for newbie accounts to announce their own pools.  Whether or not they are sincere, or are just trying to play the same scam Nexious did, I don't know.

In light of this, I decided to open up my own pool.  I figured I'd do the community a favor and offer my own. No frills, no BS. The pool is here for a simple reason: to give you a choice.  The pool mines BTC.  No merge mining.  No alt coins.  Straight up BTC mining.

You can see my announcement here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=104664.msg13126185#msg13126185

I've actually updated the maximum difficulty since I wrote that to better manage large hash miners.  Here are the current specs:

Pool:                        Jonny Bravo's Mining Emporium
Website:                   http://www.bravo-mining.com
Proxy:                      No
Generation address:  14KxdJ7DfAPsxCYkpcDTcKotjeProcfRPo
Coinbase signature:   /bravo-mining/
Payout method:         PPLNS
Fee:                         0.5%
Pay Tx Reward:         Yes
Vardiff:                    starts at 1042.  Range from 8 to 1048576.
Local Work:              stratum
Pay Orphans:           No
Min Withdrawal:       0.001
Merge Mining:          No
Location:                 US

I've actually held off making this announcement and soft launched the pool at the end of November.  Well, now I'm making it public.

The pool has already found its first block: https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC/block/000000000000000003c3a6ee87941ea88ab99490e7774ae25dc48deb9aa2bf72

Oh... and here's the important bit... the miners were paid for their contributions .

How to connect:

Code:

./cgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.bravo-mining.com:3333 -u Weblogin.WorkerName -p WorkerPassword

• You MUST register and use a valid email address because the pool requires you to validate
• PPLNS payouts with 5N share life
• MPOS front end running on NOMP stratum
• NO SPV MINING - we mine only on fully validated blocks

Currently we're averaging about 25TH; however, I regularly throw 500TH - 1PH rentals at the site (that's how we found our first block) so the hash rate varies considerably and is why I didn't put any value in the thread title.

So, if you're looking for somewhere to point your hash, give us a try.  You aren't going to get scammed, bamboozled, swindled or defrauded here.  Proof is in the pudding: we've found our first block and miners were paid.

For any support issues, you can reach me here on this thread, by PM, by email admin at bravo-mining dot com, or if you like to chat, I setup an IRC channel on freenode: #bravo-mining.

Thanks, and I look forward to seeing some of you there.

[itsnogood]

I can confirm that this pool has paid out on its first block on time and without any problems.

May the force be with us. 

[notabeliever]

I can confirm that this pool has paid out on its first block on time and without any problems.

May the force be with us. 

I second this too, it has paid

[iglasses]

GL with it JB 

ig

[Laviathon]

That's pretty cool you found a block.

[gupik65]

I can confirm that this pool has paid out on its first block on time and without any problems.

May the force be with us. 

What you get with the unit and how long you are there

[bctmke]

Awesome.  Keep up the good work.  Here's hoping ya'll find your next block soon!

[gupik65]

Awesome.  Keep up the good work.  Here's hoping ya'll find your next block soon!

Let's wait and hope

[jonnybravo0311]

Thanks everyone .  I'm very grateful for the miners on my pool.  It makes me happy that you have chosen to try out a small pool and that your hashing power is not pointed at the big guys instead.

Yes, we were lucky to have already found our first block.  It was found at about 27.4% of expected shares, so a nice surprise.

Since my announcement here, I've noticed quite a few users have registered, and I want to thank you for doing so!  I'm hoping some more of you will point some of your hashing power to the pool as well.

Looking forward to our next block!

[itsnogood]

yeah, that was extremely good luck for a first block on a new pool.

There are only 13 people with shares in this current block so rewards will be good. All we need is some of that good luck.

Forget about all these newbie accounts appearing and offering up new pools and other scams, go with a pool OP that is trusted and has a good reputation. You need look no further.

 

[jonnybravo0311]

Well... the new difficulty is here, and it was a pretty nasty change of over 18%.

As soon as the current orders on NH start to taper off and the prices for this difficulty kick in, I'll be renting about a petahash for a while.  Let's hope for a Christmas Miracle

I'll post here when I do the rental.

Edit: 1.1PH running for the next 8 hours or so.  Let's nail that next block!

[jonnybravo0311]

Unfortunately the block gods were not with me during my rental.  That is sad.  However, we've also gotten a few more miners on the pool and are currently averaging about 40TH.

Thanks to everyone who has joined and I look forward to our next block together

[Nithmund]

Great job... I had a little difficulty connecting when you first set it up... But I'm heading back to give it another go...

Good riddance Nexious... Hello Bravo Mining!

Nithmund...

[jonnybravo0311]

Glad to have you onboard with us Nithmund!  Please feel free to reach out to me if you have any difficulties and I'll be happy to provide you with any support I can.

[Rikim4ru]

Good Job Bravo!

I'm happy to see you guys got a quick block
To hell with that nexious event.... I wish you best of luck!

[icezer0z]

This is a legit pool, I was paid .5 btc in that last block

[gupik65]

This is a legit pool, I was paid .5 btc in that last block

How and how much power you have??? 5 btc???

can more accurately 0.56702425

[jonnybravo0311]

This is a legit pool, I was paid .5 btc in that last block

How and how much power you have??? 5 btc???

can more accurately 0.56702425

It's because of how many shares he had when the block was found.  When the pool found its first block, there were very few active miners who had contributed any shares.  Therefore, the block reward was divided up into fewer pieces, with each participant getting a larger portion of the pie.

Yes, icezer0z saw 0.5BTC payout that block.  If my pool were to find a block right now, he'd expect to make an even larger payout.

[icezer0z]

This is a legit pool, I was paid .5 btc in that last block

How and how much power you have??? 5 btc???

can more accurately 0.56702425

It's because of how many shares he had when the block was found.  When the pool found its first block, there were very few active miners who had contributed any shares.  Therefore, the block reward was divided up into fewer pieces, with each participant getting a larger portion of the pie.

Yes, icezer0z saw 0.5BTC payout that block.  If my pool were to find a block right now, he'd expect to make an even larger payout.

Yes I got lucky and it was Jonny and like 2 others including me hashing away.  I left and went to Kano because I felt that we were getting nowhere so if I would have stayed it probably wouldve be 0.65 or 0.75 btc.  Plus I rent hash once in awhile.

[traxor]

Where do you guys rent hash from?

Just curious...

I got screwed over by, what turned out to be a  fraudulent company a couple years ago --which is what prompted me to purchase my own mining equipment -- and have been skeptical of the concept ever since...

Thanks...