Hi everybody,
with PoDC making good progress, the following news might not be very important, but still, here it is:
A new pool is online! ![Cheesy](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/cheesy.gif)
As promised, I worked on my own pool software, and today I can announce the public beta of the pool. Hope it is usefull in the short time before PoDC goes live.
URL: https://www.purepool.org/The Pool works quite different from the current one:1. The pool is design to be very minimalistic. It is ONLY a pool, and nothing more.2. There are no logins. You identify with a valid bibleplay address, plus an optional worker name.Example 1: workerid=yQwwRT4NtwBw442eyz37NYTYzyfwxiHLk1
Example 2: workerid=yQwwRT4NtwBw442eyz37NYTYzyfwxiHLk1/MyWorkerName
It can be any biblepay address, it doesn't need to belong to the biblepay mining client itself. But his is the address for the payouts, so it should be one of your addresses! If the address is invalid, no payouts will be done.
You only need to add the pool to your biblepay.conf and set the workerid and start working. That's it.
URL for the biblepay.conf:
https://pool.purepool.org/3. The pool is sending out the bbp 1x a day, when a user has enough bbp on the pool Minimum: 10bbp on the main network
Indeed, that will only happen after block are found. The block needs to mature for 24 hours before you see any bbp in your personal statistics.
4. The Pool counts the valid shares, there is no hps2The more valid shares compared to user miners on the pool, the more bbp you get from the bbp of a found block.
5. You can see your shares by entering your biblepay address you used in the workerid in the input field on the frontendUrl:
https://www.purepool.org/(it might take some minutes until your statistics are available after you started mining with the pool)
Example:
https://www.purepool.org/main/miner/BE3dpTFgNcTxtXA1U6dLd8jBBhU3HKT96B/6. There are no pool fees at the startThe pool might have bugs
More InformationThe pool will get more statistics, for the start, there is no leaderboard.
The source code will be released in the next 2 weeks, but before that, the pool must be tested and be stable. I don't want to see multiple broken pools popup in a short time, that wouldn't help anybody.
The software itself is based on python (django for the frontend), can use any major database, but it required memcache, a message queue (I use rabbitmq), celery, a wsgi-compatible webserver (I use apache) and a good security architecture (it is design to run on a 3-server setup: frontend, database, task-server). It is tested on Linux, but still don't expect it to be super easy to setup. A good setup takes it time.
I already use the pool with my own servers, but they are not that powerfull, so don't be surprised that they alone hadn't found a block yet
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Hope you all will like the pool. I'm looking forward to your feedback
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