Crowdmine’s PPCoin pool will soon be opening to the public. Presently we are looking to recruit a small group of volunteers (around 10-25) to stress test the server. At this point we are 99% certain that everything is rock-solid, but as always it is difficult to be completely certain without the server having experienced a decent amount of traffic.
Here is a breakdown of the pool’s features:
[ul][li]Stratum mining protocol for fewer rejected/stale shares.[/li]
[li]Pay-Per-Last-N-Shares (PPLNS) reward system.[/li]
[li]1.5% fee - among the lowest![/li]
[li]0.5% block reward - taken from the 1.5% fee.[/li]
[li]Security: SSL, DDoS/XSS protection, PIN-protected address.[/li][/ul]
As a perk for participating in the beta test, there will be a reward of 5 PPCoins for each 200MH/s brought to the pool at the end of the first block discovered.* This is of course on top of the rewards you earn from mining. If you are interested, then please PM me here. *Note: MH/s calculated as an average for the entire round. Maximum of 20 PPC per person. [size=8pt]Edit: Round 1 is over.[/size]
The beta is going great so far! The pool has 0 stales out of 189635 shares. One bug has been squashed (thanks to YeOldeMiner and crazyearner for pointing it out). Yesterday I implemented manual difficulty settings for workers, as requested by crazyearner.
Thanks sahkan. We definitely won’t steal your shares.
Another update: more stats have been added (user rankings by speed and shares). Block stats will be coming once we have found our first block. Thanks to DarthNoodle for requesting this.
Based on feedback and some discussion, we’ve decided to change the fee structure and # of confirmations. The fee will now be 1.5%, which is competitive with other PPC pools. In addition, 0.5 of that will go to the block finder. The number of confirmations will now be 520.
though may be here a while with the current hashrate 