I'll be shutting down the pool today. I would be surprised if there were any more blocks.
Thanks everyone.
For whatever it is worth, I've switched my personal miners to slush's pool with BTC Guild as a backup.
If you would be so kind, could you please explain your reasoning for switching to Slush instead of any other pool? I tried to run my miners there, but there are constant issues with payouts and reward calculations. It is like the opposite of the stability, reliability, and transparency that HHTT had. I want to support a lower hash rate pool, and I don't mind the variance so much, but not at a significant cost in profitability.
Thank you for your input on this!
I am actually trying p2pool now. I have a node setup with a 1% fee:
http://b.1209k.com:9332/static/Note: I might take down or change this at any time. It is not redundant. Your username has to be exactly a bitcoin address or you won't get anything.
I've considered building a wrapper around p2pool to make a viable smaller pool but there are some problems.
1) With p2pool, you have to find mini-shares to get paid. They are about 1m difficulty, so ok for large miners but not good for smaller guys.
2) The p2pool does adjust share difficulty, but on a global basis. So with just my miners attached, everyone who connected will see about 1k share difficulty, which is again problematic for small miners.
I could pretty easily run redundant nodes (I am not yet and not sure I will) and could write some code to aggregate stats from them to give people reports so it has that going for it.
I might be able to solve problem #2 by hacking at the code a bit, but I'm not sure I want to mess with that.