Hi Everyone
Just a bump for the HashFaster pool, come join us, we are one of the larger pools, solving blocks every few minutes or less!!
https://max.hashfaster.com 1% fee, Prop payouts, DDoS protection, excellent and crypto-devoted admin (me!)
HISTORY OF POOLSJust to share a bit of information not many miners are aware of, but when this coin was first launched, the original "offical" pools were sharing the ONLY working stratum server code (so a coin made by developers, stratum forked to work for the coin, by the developers) which was not shared publicly, infact you were solicited to pay "early access fee" if asked for it (~2
BTC).
Taking the issue into the hands of the community, HashFaster put up a 1.1337
BTC bounty to have a public developer develop and release stratum so other non-"official" pools could open (remember, most of the pools were actually exclusively ran by the coin developers).
The bounty was granted on Saturday morning, the github fork of maxcoin stratum was released on our behalf, and we, and other good pools opened immediately, supporting a fair-mining pool scene.
HashFaster has a proven track record in running reliable, fair pools, all of our pools are listed @
http://hashfaster.comI hope I never have to go through with that again, and I hope any future "new algo" coins that are released are released with working Stratum code for pool operators to use to support said coin.
Thanks!!
ZC