Quote from: kripz on October 20, 2011, 12:05:41 PM

Website is down, can you post here?

Not down for me but here is what it says

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BTC Guild started on May 9th, 2011. In that time it went from a small pool on my home connection, to a dedicated server in a DDoS resilient ISP, to 9 servers spread across the globe, and then consolidated multiple times to try new technologies/scaling methods.

From day 1, it was my goal to run this pool on a donation based model. Bitcoin was growing, not only in price, but in visible support as new people become aware of it. However, in the last three months, the number of botnets has continued to plague this pool, and constantly grows even though I have attempted many ways of banning them. Attempts to ban them have lead to two specifically targetted DDoSes which lasted 3 days each, and other DDoSes that have hit all three of the largest pools (and some which hit smaller ones).

Paired with the sinking price of Bitcoins, the not shrinking price of my servers, and the excessive amount of time spent trying to keep the pool online during attacks, continuing to run as a 0% pool is not viable.

In the next week, the pool will be transitioning from a 0% proportional bitcoin pool, to a fixed fee pure pay per share pool that includes merged mining. This will be similar to the current PPS Guild beta. I expect many users will leave, but those who stay will likely experience a truly stable pool, with no variance.

PPS Guild has been up and running for over 1 month straight, and has required no intervention. It has had some of the lowest stales of any pool, truly instantaneous rewards, and simple to use interface. I want to bring that simplicity and stability to all the users who decide to remain with us after the transition.

The fee of the new pool (with PURE PPS) will not be as high as the current PPS beta, due to the addition of merged mining, which adds a second luck factor to help balance us towards neutrality.