Quote from: theowalpott on April 05, 2013, 01:20:24 PM

Quote from: supermine on April 05, 2013, 08:53:27 AM

Hi, I have a coupole of questions...

- Do we have an IRC for the Guild?
- How is the Stratum Address for Merged Mining with Namecoins? mergedmining.btcguild.com 8332 sounds like getwork.. ?
- Why isn't merged mining default, are there any shortcoming if I mine merged?

TY

Since eleuthria might be sleeping (sounds like he needs it):

- #btcguild on irc.freenode.net
- There is no option of merged mining/namecoins using stratum, only via the getwork server.
- As far as I understand, because namecoins are considered fairly dead/out of fashion (the project hasn't been updated in a long time) and so there is little incentive to implement merged mining into the stratum protocol.

1) Correct (this is shown in the footer on every BTC Guild page)
2) Correct, I have not implemented merged mining into Stratum, and will not be doing so.
3) Namecoin as a project is dead. Right now it's just a pump & dump platform. Most of the time NMC is near worthless, but because it's so cheap it's easy for somebody to force small bubbles for relatively no risk. As such, I have put it into End-of-Life mode where support is limited, just like what has been done with getwork.