The ETH pool decided to regenerate its DAGs for some reason. Should be up again shortly. Sorry for the interruption.

Checking.

A pool has unfortunately no influence on how quickly a blockchain propagates transactions.

Ok, where is the problem with the screenshot?

Stop spreading FUD. Yesterday you've received two payments alone. These payments can all be verified on the blockchain explorer: https://callistoexplorer.com/addr/0x8df9bebcefc5ddb67be0de37a5a249ee07791709

18.895858409788 | 0x9ddd58537f1b2f5e08323b6f1570c026b0668dec178be00a3973d0c141edfdf7 | 2018-05-03 08:13:25.048592
15.257380362948 | 0xf10d7b0df43df22707d2bb75b7ec23fd5567e7a1b26e2ce72e3c6c5d96093b64 | 2018-05-03 04:49:34.399532
14.595981020019 | 0x320c1a5fdb3fa8399bceafdba2c6f4c1ca8bec7aa00a892c29fa276fe776a3ca | 2018-05-02 22:57:32.800074
11.660729452716 | 0x8e389248f1f73b8ce2effce751190bd1dde16c76edb859a76151fce75b79ded7 | 2018-05-01 10:54:52.489315
15.714961641874 | 0xe3cc9785ceaabcd74854f85999dd370d9a88567c891a884a29136ed63fb31f4a | 2018-04-30 08:02:03.385073
16.271655510375 | 0x2d54a39582dea80209264fc0851e00bf92406687c697c496cef5402b6d2ff881 | 2018-04-29 19:25:09.322843
16.216805294307 | 0x7b0e72a2d463048282f183921eb9326262e0357e73ce38a8ba70d58704581743 | 2018-04-29 14:53:05.205369
14.174116466593 | 0x769b110a79a182f3a88e58e2bd4c0bef598d1a7993076540d0a7e7bc2ac71068 | 2018-04-29 07:24:37.059466
11.040476793584 | 0x135ffff375cc00c1dce5cf67e27e4ee1dafe448d22b8cad078e921f98efd15d2 | 2018-04-29 02:50:41.630418
10.514622565652 | 0x520ab8ed72ac73bda7f8cb264975372e43617fcb8d8ebd8c874731c78619cf1e | 2018-04-28 21:18:43.194462
14.020379111384 | 0x2c6cf659614d0fbf5ef5dbf21aa55a8f5889e82337ee4ce0ea43fa7bf0b03b6f | 2018-04-28 03:20:56.752247
13.489893557404 | 0xb97c4ce863cd9b41189b3def4bf37036d2698a8a1f3dbf678ab80e7b96cdde83 | 2018-04-28 01:40:40.664389
13.308126991461 | 0xa240e3f5ff7c93dfd0bb66b3c3ac080826ba3bae45a9938ee90acc2080508830 | 2018-04-27 12:50:42.100769
10.669803979602 | 0xafbb867ed06a9a5554e00594470d2daeeff780d3d0e63624195ebb5c5366f490 | 2018-04-26 16:51:59.225104
10.772009769468 | 0xaac1b7b63f1052697d5fd53e3b9071fe34262f3932fb37dc080e35e3e9769e55 | 2018-04-26 08:17:22.950333

Hey. I agree while the other two Verge Pools are quite healthy, the situation of the X17 is depressing. After the positive feedback on Twitter about opening a X17 Verge pool, the actual contribution has been pretty weak. I could probably update your submitted shares to apply to the Blake2s pool to at least secure a payment for you.

I have allocated a budget to promote the XMR pool with a block-bounty campaign where the finder of the next 25-30 consecutive blocks receives a bonus of 0.1 XMR. I'm still working on some code to make the bounty booking full automated. In addition to that I've resumed work on the Coinfoudry GUI Miner (think Minergate without the crap).

In short no, because Monero has changed its PoW algorithm to be not compatible with ASIC miners.

Marvin: Let me refer you to the description of the system by its inventor Isreali Mathematician Meni Rosenfeld. The implementation is Open Source and works exactly according to the spec: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=39832

The pools are up again.