[POOL] Blazecoin (BLZ) scrypt | 1% PROP | 15-min payouts | Vardiff | Since 2014

[hyperminer]

Blazecoin (BLZ) Public Pool
  scrypt proof of work, 30-second blocks, a 2014 chain that never stopped

 
  Connect

  Stratum: stratum+tcp://blazecoin.co.uk:3333
  Username: your worker name
  Password: your worker secret

  Both come from the Mining Pool page after you register a miner on the site. Every worker has its own secret, so nobody can mine under your
  name.

 
  Pool details
 

• Payout scheme: PROP, weighted by share difficulty
   
• Fee: 1%
   
• Payouts: every 15 minutes, 1 BLZ minimum
   
• Vardiff: starts at 16 and adjusts to your hashrate, from USB sticks to large ASICs
   
• Block reward: 25.8125 BLZ, a block every 30 seconds, difficulty retargets every block (Phoenix-413)
   
• Tested with: cgminer / bfgminer on USB sticks, and Goldshell scrypt ASICs
   

Example (cgminer):
 

Code:

cgminer --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://blazecoin.co.uk:3333 -u YOUR_WORKER_NAME -p YOUR_WORKER_SECRET

 
  Getting an account

  Sign-up on the site is invite-only for now. Invite codes are free: ask in Telegram or Discord and say
  you want to mine. Once registered, open the Mining Pool page, add a miner, and point your rig at the stratum above.

  You will need a BLZ address for payouts. The wallets are on GitHub (desktop), or use the web wallet at
  gw.blazecoin.co.uk.

 
  Honest disclosure

  Today almost all of the network hashrate comes from the maintainer's own rigs. That is exactly why this thread exists: the chain needs more independent miners. Solo mining against your own
  node with getblocktemplate works too, and other pools are welcome.

 
  Notes
 

• The website, including pool registration, is not available from the United Kingdom or from sanctioned countries.
• Blazecoin is not listed on any exchange at the moment. Mine it because you want to support a 2014 scrypt chain, not for profit.
• Full project details, specifications and wallets: [ANN] Blazecoin (BLZ) V2.0
   

Questions or problems connecting? Reply here, or ask in Telegram / Discord.

[hyperminer]

Pool update, 24 October

  Big scrypt ASICs now reach their working difficulty within a minute of connecting, instead of four. Vardiff re-checks every 5 seconds while a rig is over target and climbs at least 4x each step, and the pool honours
  mining.suggest_difficulty if your firmware sends it. Every rig on the pool came back after the change with zero rejected shares.

  If you tried the pool with an Elphapex DG1 and it kept failing over to your backup, please try again: that was the problem this fixes. Full write-up of what was going wrong is in Mining (Altcoins):
  Why big scrypt rigs drop off small pools.

  Stratum unchanged: stratum+tcp://blazecoin.co.uk:3333, worker name and secret from the Mining Pool page.

Is this your rig? evilgenius1999

  A rig using the worker name evilgenius1999.f4c99bc3c7 has been knocking on the pool roughly every 15 minutes since 21 October, day and night. Every time it is turned away, because that worker isn't registered  here, so none of its shares count.

  My guess is that our pool is set as a backup in its pool list and it fails over to us on a timer. If it's yours, you're one step from being paid for that time:

  [list=1]
  

• Ask for a free invite code in Telegram or Discord (sign-up is invite-only for now).
    
• Register on the site, open the Mining Pool page and add a miner. The worker name is your choice; you get a secret for it.
    
• Put that worker name and secret in the rig, using stratum+tcp://blazecoin.co.uk:3333.
    

Big rig? Put the starting difficulty after the secret, for example YOUR_WORKER_SECRET,d=65536. The pool also remembers each worker's last difficulty between connections now.

  1% PROP, payouts every 15 minutes.

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