Hello,
Im pleased to announce the launch of charitycoin - our new pool designed to give something back to the bitcoin development community. We are offering a 10 BTC bounty to the finder of our first block.

This project was inspired by Unthinkingbit in this thread http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=20455.0. Whilke the pool has been running for some time, it has not been officially launched until today as we have been waiting for our new domain name. However there is some delay with that so I have used a temporary domain name to get us going as its better to get going than sit around!

We are an open registration charity mining pool which give 1% of every generated block to open source bitcoin developers and writers specified here. This is done via the donation amount being fixed at 1% for each user. You can donate more if you wish, just let me know in this thread or via PM (include your pool username) and I will make the necessary modifications.

For the first 6 months of operation we will be running with 0% transaction fees for all. Pool keeps transaction fees.

While we are waiting our new domain name from Privacyshark, you can find us here

You can use the following URL to mine with us (set up an account and miner first!):
http://charitycoin.org:8344

Website:
http://charitycoin.org

Some Pool Features

    Latest Bitcoind
    Latest pushpoold with long poll/LP and blkmonD to reduce stales
    JSON API
    Automatic payout
    ozco.in fork of simplecoin interface
    Cool stats and info
    'cheat proof score'
    Currently based on Amazon EC2 Infrastructure for resilience and reliability
    0% admin fee

Please note that until we find our first block, automatic payout is disabled. This is so I can run the payout system after finding the first block and ensure there are no bugs to ensure that everyone gets paid correctly. Once the first payout has happened, automatic payout will be enabled for all subsequent blocks. Instant payout is available with a 1% fee.

Im looking for reputable members to assist with the pool (support, coding etc) if anyone is interested, please PM me.

There is currently a 0.25 BTC bounty for anyone who reports an exploitable security vulnerability with POC

Hope to see you all on board soon and good luck to our miners in getting the bounty and future coins!

Peace

Shamen