In order to keep this project afloat, I had to increase the pool fees accross the board from 0.15% to 0.3% which is still a fraction of what most other pools charge. I've been planning to do this for quite a while. When the Monero pool was not able to cover the transaction fees to pay the miners today because the transaction fee was higher than the pool fee, I decided it is time to make the switch. I sincerely hope that this change will not force you to leave us. The change was necessary to pay the bills.

If you are satisfied with the pool and the support, then drop us down a like and/or comment as it helps us out a lot. :-)

Until now only a fraction of the community has been given access to our Slack based Pool Chat and I would like to change that. Until I've implemented some way to automate registrations, please feel free to send an empty mail with the subject "Slack Invite" to contact@coinfoundry.org to receive an invite.  

Just wanted to let you guys know that I'm fully aware of the delayed Monero payouts. Both our Monero Nodes refuse to construct the payout transaction with an internal error even though there's enough confirmed balance on the wallet. I have communicated this to the Monero Team on Github (https://github.com/monero-project/monero/issues/3108) and I will now attempt a workaround that apparently worked for someone else.

What an irony. The pool finds three blocks within a couple hours and then this. 

During a development related inspection of the database table containing the miner balances, I've come accross a ton of balances that will never going to reach their intended destinations simply because shares were submitted using the wrong miner login. In short the miner did not follow the instructions on given https://poolmining.org/pool/xmr. The most common case by far is the use of the '#' character instead of a dot character for seperating workername from wallet address. Resulting in the workername being treated as a Monero Payment Id.

This is a valid Payment ID: 

4EUej1YR199Rt8chsaGWXqaUuoPd3zx4xKnoCpfXjvUvE59tGUr9n4ebDSodxDBsGh8TzLWKecof2Tz799woXRfh2MCbdkt8x

This is just a tiny fragment of balances unintentionally using worker names as Payment Ids:

44myiCivPsdRt8chsaGWXqaUuoPd3zx4xKnoCpfXjvUvE59tGUr9n4ebDSodxDBsGh8TzLWKecof2Tz799woXRfh1vmnMfP#0f9137ec4d5bbcaf
494XDjGLHpvSuK81cJioBfQcN9ibJvnWHG7cPSz6MUagg6EjuLWoHUQCpWFQGSkHgwe7gz5a1PGsFPNY4uptGSXSJxSiUad#3257
494XDjGLHpvSuK81cJioBfQcN9ibJvnWHG7cPSz6MUagg6EjuLWoHUQCpWFQGSkHgwe7gz5a1PGsFPNY4uptGSXSJxSiUad#23
47jiBuHxv2BVH4K4GNo8QT4TXQ6nAcs1jXMpzhyDFwcKeaYzZDZaNfeEB7WHytFxyiRH4cBEBRqix8PZskTsTkkr2Jex5r8#3
47jiBuHxv2BVH4K4GNo8QT4TXQ6nAcs1jXMpzhyDFwcKeaYzZDZaNfeEB7WHytFxyiRH4cBEBRqix8PZskTsTkkr2Jex5r8#4
47jiBuHxv2BVH4K4GNo8QT4TXQ6nAcs1jXMpzhyDFwcKeaYzZDZaNfeEB7WHytFxyiRH4cBEBRqix8PZskTsTkkr2Jex5r8#5
47JUmQC7NiMW5928FG3K5qR1FnCsKXsKtHuLUBxAkk86LT2Zn98We2XdCThCLK58EjUPyEUY73fyVbpZ8VYcvZDE7zxsMmz#b386fccdf799bf1d
47jiBuHxv2BVH4K4GNo8QT4TXQ6nAcs1jXMpzhyDFwcKeaYzZDZaNfeEB7WHytFxyiRH4cBEBRqix8PZskTsTkkr2Jex5r8#1
43cAsVzMbqtde4RdpQYq4eJMaL7gpZxwvHDpfP9q2UYS2fv9SKpNiH6LS19569ehSkAtpcYHFsivULEVST6vSfsqLxHSXCc#dade8ec0181b3354
42BYC6jf7Zp5BY7vwTfd1oYStcBmnvfmE6Q4zLEK3xVBfEnRD75suMERhbcHc6NShehNMRkfPsCk11Qu5eBRCS9VQjBoViT#1

4Hm3YrYNgczRAP7jbGCZ7vA8XwbBR8DWMU7Bm9FKZqjxQXPPcwMP1kDbK3mtBSdt2c6TmLCPiMSXa39uBiEBwkg4FWbPkvPfKaZMgVDM7C#asusrog

Hi,

I mined at least 2 weeks in-between november & december and stopped when I saw that no block was found for a lot of time.

I waited to be paid to mine more.

A few days ago you found a block.

My wallet is still empty: 46fL2m9rterJvvhWPkhpE3ahvaDompf5wjZsXnf8RxqpMH5m1YcshZuetCd2iFqPXcBwmu9fFN9L3JMaptTEaHjrBvDzd5h

And I don't see anything anymore on your website (no share, no balance, no paid out).

What does that mean?

The last VTC block took 17 hours and shows an effort of 1%.  The previous block took 2 hours and shows an effort of 22%.  Can't be right.

We had 15 blocks in 11 days now that average of little more than 1 per day so 2 days now and no block..Guess it will happen any time now?

The ZCash pool will be down for maintenance until a necessary software upgrade has been implemented.