[ANN][Stratum][Pool] www.bitbarpool.com Another Big Vern pool

[kokojie]

Instamined by the devs just like any other coin, including BTC. The only 'relatively fair' coin is NVC, where the devs publicly destroyed their coins after a massive hate attack on the forums.

NVC was pre-mine, and only less than half of the pre-mine were publicly destroyed.

I don't think insta-mine is as bad as pre-mine. Every coin has to start by rewarding early adopters, otherwise no one would help to promote it. If a coin start with sky high difficulty, it'll just be dead in the water with no one mining it. In the long term, the insta-mine portion is tiny compared to the total amount of coin that will be produced. You can think of the instamine as a bounty for early miners/adopters.

[baloo_kiev]

NVC was pre-mine, and only less than half of the pre-mine were publicly destroyed.

65k were premined and 110k (65k premined + 45k instamined) destroyed. At the moment of destruction, 110k was about half of all coins.
But it depends on your 'pre-mine' definition. NVC was announced in Russian section of Bitcointalk, just like CHNcoin was announced on a Chinese forum, but who said that coins must be announced in English?

I don't think insta-mine is as bad as pre-mine. Every coin has to start by rewarding early adopters, otherwise no one would help to promote it. If a coin start with sky high difficulty, it'll just be dead in the water with no one mining it. In the long term, the insta-mine portion is tiny compared to the total amount of coin that will be produced. You can think of the instamine as a bounty for early miners/adopters.

You can also think of the premine as a bounty for the developers. A coin can be launched at moderate difficulty if the devs release the source a month or two before launch, so that everyone can get ready, including pools.

[abdullahadam]

Bitbarpool has a major problem. It has not found a block in days which is very unusual at this low difficulty.   I have 190k of unpaid shares and its just sitting there

There are others who had the same problem here http://forum.litebonk.com/index.php?topic=745.msg3924#msg3924

I have tried to contact Vern but no response

[John Eden]

I think he had to apply the same fix that was put on bottlecaps pool

[MacT]

  Currently 147 hours since the last block was found.  Some good hashrate  on the pool too

 Something is broken

[BitJohn]

until the stratum fix is in place try the getwork ports.

[MacT]

 Whatever was broken before sure seems fixed now. This pool is solving them like it was Sherlock.  +10 more for BigVern, hooray

[iANDROID]

Dunno why but I was trying to connect a worker with CGminer and:

Code:

pool 0 JSON stratum auth failed: <null>

Triple checked my username and password, they are both correct.

[A L I E N]

Its been working great now, thanks for the donation only pool!

[jdebunt]

always good to see more pools

[RandomQ]

is there an official thread for this pool?

Did anyone else not get credit for block 15,632? its acting like it was orphan, but not marked orphan.

[sigesang]

this pool is on it's own fork now, tried mail the support email paul@bitbarpool.com but the address seems not working

[MacT]

 Coins i sent from here to cryptsy early yesterday never have been credited either. All yesterday, last night, and todays mining we apparently will not be getting credited for either.  No reply yesterday from big vern in email either.

[LittleDigger]

is there an official thread for this pool?

Did anyone else not get credit for block 15,632? its acting like it was orphan, but not marked orphan.

Might have been a skipped block.... That was happening on some of Big Vern's pools

http://forum.litebonk.com/index.php?topic=786.msg4124#new

[MacT]

 ... and its gone.   Pool does not seem to exist any longer AND payment requests from days before it was taken down are not being honored by BigVern at Cryptsy. No word at all

[LittleDigger]

... and its gone.   Pool does not seem to exist any longer AND payment requests from days before it was taken down are not being honored by BigVern at Cryptsy. No word at all

Ewwwww .. that's not a good sign..I was a fan of Big Vern, he used to answer the questions of miners in his forum promptly, no matter how inane they were..

[sigesang]

Seems to be back up (bunch of orphans in block history, not surprisingly), but still not a single word from owner.
I got no reward from 20718 to 20,769, those are confirmed and after it seemed to forked at 20772.

The silence from pool owner is making me not want to use any of the pools listed on cryptsy...

[MacT]

 
 Big Vern did make good the coins that werent showing up at cryptsy.  We did lose most of our mining from the 21st, and all of our work efforts from the 22nd, 23rd, and 24th. No explanations or emails to anyone though.