So long and thanks for all the fish!
I'm really going to miss this place. It's been a major minor part of my life over the last 4 years.
I'm also curious about where everyone is moving to. The times I've tried other pools, sooner or later I always hit a failover pool. At btcguild this almost never happened. I think if we can get 5ph or more of btcguild's hashrate to all move to the same pool it would really benefit everyone there. As of now I might move to eligius or ghash(ew) or even antpool IDK. Anyone decided on where they are moving to yet?
eleuthria has a
list he recommends. absent from that list is
Slush - i think its to do with bad blood and a misunderstanding, the result is Slush was responsible for a DoS attack on BTC Guild.
The one pool that I wouldn't put on that list is Eligius Mining Pool the owner has a reputation see below.
Luke-Jr used the pools hashing power to 51% attack an alt with out the permission or authorization of the people hashing for the pool.
Luke-Jr
also injected his personal Bitcoin address black list into Gentoo Linux code base. for religious reasons
multiple times.
Luke-Jr
also threatened to 51% attack an independent Bitcoin protocol build as a core developer. (read the whole thread to get a feel for his personality)
Luke-Jr
also ripped off CGMiner code without giving credit,
so no i wouldn't group Eligius with the others on that list, there is a history of abuse of power there.