A Blake256 merge mining pool has been on my list of things to get going for some time now. Ive been quite busy with Multipool projects (NAUT, ARCH, JBS/PINK/+++) and hadnt gotten around to working on a merge pool. Bryce approached me a couple weeks ago to speed up/prioritize my work as XDQ was being removed from the ecosystem's pools and it needed a new home.

The blakeShares pool will be online soon. I realize I have been saying that for a few days now, but my time to work on it is limited. I have an operational back-end pool adapted from BlueDragons eloipool and the UMO NOMP pool, and it took alot of digging around to get things configured right and working. I spend the majority of last week attempting to get a superior pool infrastructure running the merged mining (Simple's PowerPool - still working with the developer on it) but the time crunch forced me to use the already existing pools.

At this time I am coding up a custom front end interface for account management with workers and payout addresses using the Meteor framework. Please let me know any and all questions you might have.