Quote from: eleuthria on November 01, 2011, 02:31:31 PM

Over the next few months you will likely see the majority of free pools either close, or change to fee structures. Perhaps you should try implementing a fee and trying to keep your presence known? If you play your cards right, who knows what position you'd be in if we see another bubble 6 months down the road?

The fact is that be it fees or donations, at the 60 GH/s that we seemed to have reached (or the <50 it was more recently), it doesn't amount to much. If Bitcoins were worth more, or if we had had more hashrate (say, finding a couple of blocks daily), it might have been worth the effort to keep going. But as things were, with Bitcoin value in the mud and the pool not really growing, it was looking improbable that the pool could ever even cover the server costs. It was an interesting project to develop, but in the end that wasn't enough.