Views on AlternatePool.com ?

[Burninj]

Anyone who managed to stay connected more than 24h hours, can tell us if payouts are still coming in?

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[greyw00lf]

My explanation would be that the pool needs to trade the mined (scrypt) coins to BTC, which obviously hasn't been done yet. Also there are some coins that take more time to mature, so maybe thats why we don't see any earnings today yet.

haven't seen any payout since then!

Anyone who managed to stay connected more than 24h hours, can tell us if payouts are still coming in?

I would not advise anybody to mine there as there are no payouts since at least a week!


Does somebody know a similar Pool, which can be mined at port 80?

[wuyulou]

I tried to go to one of Bigvern's old pools and it redirected me to http://alternatepool.com/

Then did a whois on the domain and it does belong to him so it's probably pretty good.

fast withdrawls?

[greyw00lf]

fast withdrawls?

no withdrawals at all at the moment!

[greyw00lf]

looks like it's working again, let's see if there are withdrawals too

[PrintMule]

looks like it's working again, let's see if there are withdrawals too

ah yes, forgot about this thread. resumed mining there yesterday with 1 of my  lesser miners, looks stable so far. Will post if/when payout happens.

[Burninj]

Big vern found some time to reset servers?

Well anyway, now with middlecoin hashrate, alternatepool is rather pointless...

[greyw00lf]

i got payed out today, so it's really working again

[PrintMule]

Big vern found some time to reset servers?

Well anyway, now with middlecoin hashrate, alternatepool is rather pointless...

wow, thanks for pointing that out. Did not hear about that pool before. Just as I wanted to point one of my miners elsewhere to increase variance. I wonder how will these two compare in a long run. Alternatepool has better options at the exchange in theory still.

UPDATE: looks like pool stopped adding to people's balanses. I'm stuck at 0.95 and 0.8 for more than a day or two now :/

[dnp]

alternatepool's fixed difficulty at 512 is just too high for mortal gpu owners.

right now there is only 14 active miners and an incredibly low pool hashrate of 1.78 M/h
i'm hovering around 3rd/4th fastest miner at only 0.168 to 0.224 range M/h

the pool is a complete waste of time if it isnt going to find any blocks (lack of total hashrate.)
the pool is also a complete waste of time if it switches to a rapidly moving altcoin because
no mortal gpu will ever get an a submitted share before the next block comes up.

they really need to lower the diff level and get more people regularly using the pool.

really, 512 for *scrypt* ?

[PrintMule]

Don't bother,there are other, much better pools now.

Middlecoin, or if you're into selling you coins yourself - multipool.

[gybigp]

Yup, lot better pools available.  Not sure what BigVern did with all the unpaid accounts when he changed to mining with the cryptsy key.  I never got my payout.  There were a few hundred people on the list of inactive users that had unpaid accounts and now none of those show up.  There was more than once I mined for a couple weeks with never seeing a penny.  The last time I had several million accepted shares accepted.  Stay away from there.  BigVern never answered of the messages I left either. 

[PrintMule]

Smartest thing that scammer has done - was to avoid these forums as much as possible. And the fact that pool had no contact info surely helped.