7/8/2016 Update:

Attention everyone! Great news!

We will be moving the pool to production hardware over the course of the weekend! Please expect some downtime.

We are also resetting all the statistics back to zero. Your previous shares will still be paid out!

Along with moving to production, we are going to increase the PPS fee from 3% to 5%. This is to cover the additional server costs (siad eats a lot of ram, and we unfortunately have to rent a more expensive VPS.)

After switching servers, the pool will be open to the public.

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After a few weeks hard work, the pool is finally in testing. I've sent out info to the testers who inquired.

Pool currently is PPS with 3% fee, supports long polling for lower stales and username-less payouts (simply uses your wallet address as the username!)

Will officially launch after we get some serious hashing going, a few blocks, and to make sure payouts are painless.

Any questions, let me know!

Edit 1:

We do not have any specialized mining software. You would use the publicly available GoMiner, the same you use when mining solo. We added commits for it to access a pool: https://github.com/SiaMining/gominer/commits/poolmod

Update 1:

So far the beta test is running well! We've discovered a few bugs in GoMiner and one in the pool. You can see here in the pic the testers running, and one person still on an old version of the GoMiner that is producing a TON of stales/invalids:

Update 2:

Found our first block!

Update 3:

Another update:

There is a rather severe bug in GoMiner that is sending in duplicate results to the pool. Due to this bug, many miners are wasting TONS of hashing power doing the same work over and over.

IF YOU ARE SEEING ANY DUPLICATE SHARES IN YOUR MINER LOG or seeing any invalids on your pool address, PLEASE get in contact with us! The email address for contacting us is provided in your pool address page or the testing instructions

We would like to solve this bug, and we need your help to do it! This bug only affects some miners, not all of them. It's an issue with the GoMiner, and not the pool itself.

Update 4: 7/6/2016

We currently have enough testers. Thanks for all the inquiries. If we need more, or the pool is released, I will make sure to send a message out to everyone who has contacted me.