Quote from: flinchy on March 21, 2014, 06:57:01 AM

Quote from: CtrlAltDefeated on March 21, 2014, 04:15:47 AM

Quote from: sussex on March 21, 2014, 01:09:26 AM

Quote from: flinchy on March 21, 2014, 12:36:10 AM

Quote from: buddymoon94 on March 20, 2014, 07:31:09 PM

Hey guys I've been mining at air.ctrlaltdefeated and this message just popped up so i figured i would let every one know about it. "Probably going to shut this pool down today instead of upgrading to the new wallet. If you guys would please start withdrawing your coins so that I don't need to manually pay everyone out it would be appreciated."

ffs seriously @ctrlaltdefeated ?

you suck!

Just signed up and started mining on Carbonshark and Cryptopool no problems and they have a lower hashrate so are good choices to spread the hash out more evenly.

I won't be using any ctrlaltdefeated pools again, it sounded like a hissy fit.

Wow thats a bit unwarranted. Both you guys have had 0 fee's for as long as the pool has been around. I've just started a second job and don't have time to maintain pools any longer. If one of the miners hadn't brought the wallet update to my attention I likely wouldn't have even known and we probably would have forked. Would you have preffered that happen instead? Air is the only one of my pools that has any hashrate at all and taking a look at my server cost it was fast becoming an expensive hobby. It should be noted that out of the 9 miners left on my pool only 5 of them are paying fee's and its been that way for weeks now. I'm not a bussiness and I cannot afford to run at a cost.

As far as a "mature" response goes, There's not a whole lot I can fit into that small message box that gets the point across and doesn't make me sound like an asshole.

Thanks for the appreciation though.

how is it expensive?.. firstly, i would have been happy to go 1% fee (which FYI i was donating for a while)

secondly, a pool this size being really expensive? i could run it off my spare laptop, let alone one of my PC's or rigs, easily....

and do you seriously not know you can put a full post on 'home' and say 'we're shutting down, read the post' Huh

sad to hear you're having troubles though, i was really enjoying the general stability.. and you WERE a lot more active previously haha

Unless you live in a minorty of suburbs the best domestic connection you get in Australia is 24/1 (and thats if you live next door to an exchange) 1Mbps upload isn't going to be stable no matter what size pool you run. A bussiness grade VDSL connection is several thousand a month for a symetrical 10/10 connections (still not ideal for running multiple pools).

Try finding me an Australian VPS under a few hundred a month. Then add to that DDOS protection and the cost of a domain (very mininmal I know but it adds up).

Add to this the time spent maintaining the pool (I work 2 jobs) and you'll find it's pretty easy to start running at a deficit. The pool has been running 30MH/s since I started it with an average of about 1 air per day in fee's. So My air pool earns me about 0.05 BTC a month. The server costs $250 a month with ddos protection adding a substantial amount ontop of that. I'm sorry but I'm not going to continue to work a second night shift job just so that I can do a largely thankless job.

If you believe its as easy as you think I challenge you to run your own server for a month and see if you aren't pulling your hair out at the end of it. I'm sorry you seem to feel that I owe you something but that's just not the case.

Truth of it is that alot of pool owners would barely be breaking even and they get virtually no thanks at all but when the shit hits the fan they have a mob of angry people after them.