Sorry for the delay in replying, Mr Bitcoin (been away from the forum doing other non-Litcoin related stuff).  I've just sent your balance to you a few mioments ago. 

Best wishes and thanks for having mined at the pool.
froggy

Hi Miner99er....looks like you got it working....the database is showing 1853.57974874 LTC sent to you at 3.46AM yesterday. :-) 

You should still be able to log in, Miner99er.  Although mining has stopped, I haven't shut down the member area yet.   Have you tried resetting your password?

Hi BlackBison, the payout error didn't affect any blocks in which you mined. 

Don't worry, anyone, about whether you've received extra...just think of it as a parting bonus "thank you" for mining at the pool. 

I may release the source code.  If I do, it'll be in a few weeks time.  It's a bit messy with lots of commented-out stuff but maybe it would allow folks to check or experiment to see where things went wrong (I've got ideas and thoughts of how to fix it).

Thanks EskimoBob, that really does mean a lot.  I'll always have good memories of the pool and its great members. 

Okies folks, the site is back up for final withdrawals.  I haven't messed around trying to fix the glitched allocations - consider any extra that you may have been allocated as a parting gift to thank you for mining at the pool (that includes you, burnside).  

To withdraw your Litecoins, please ensure that you have a valid Payment Address on your Account Details page, and that your Automatic Payout amount is set to 0.001 . Automatic payouts of any final balances are sent every 40 minutes.

Please ensure that you have withdrawn your Litecoins by 21st June 2012, at which time all functionality will cease

I've been running it on 2 nodes at vps.net (originally plans were to use more nodes, but I had a pay cut in my day job, so had to cut down to 2 nodes to minimise outgoings).  You're very correct - even at just two nodes costing £28.00 (UK pounds) per month the monthly cost for those nodes has still been far more than the pool ever brought in.  

Between November and the end of April the total donations in to the pool were about 1950 litecoins (sincere thanks to those who donated).  From this, about 1168 litecoins were paid out from the pool to good causes, leaving about 782 litecoins income, which is about $1.93 or £1.25 UK pounds during that whole period .  Server costs were £168 for that November to April period.  I had been hoping litecoins may increase in value to eventually make it financially viable but unfortunately there's not much sign of that at the moment.

Running the mining op is pretty staightforward, but it's setting it up in the first place and ensuring everything works together that's the tricky bit.  With litecoin.miningpool.com this meant getting pushpool to interact with bitcoind as the "backend" and then getting a "front end" to work (user member area, stats and full working database to share out the coins properly).  I started out with simplecoin for the "front end" but ended up rewriting most of it from scratch....twice...which was more work than I had expected.  Things seemed to be going fine in this second version of the pool until those glitches which started 22nd May.  Unfortunately I don't really have the time to go through all of the code in the hope that I can fix the error (and don't want to risk the potential cost of things glitching yet again).  It's sad as I'd hoped to do good with the pool and the "good causes" donations, but I guess I need to be practical too.

Wow, thanks Burnside - that'll help hugely.  I've taken the whole site down for now but will make it available again (without actual mining) for final withdrawals at the weekend (I'll keep it open to give members the chance to withdraw for a couple of weeks or so).  Not sure what I'll do with the site after that.   

Eeek, I've just checked the database and in a number of rounds, which seem to have started 22 May, the pool has over-allocated litecoins to what appears to be (from first checks) all miners mining in those rounds.  As a result the pool doesn't have enough litecoins to pay out 9623 currently.  You're one of those who was overallocated litecoins, burnside so your final true figure will be less than 9626. 

I'm taking the pool down and will try to work out correct allocations of litecoins over the weekend. Mining may not come back but once the correct allocations have been worked out I'll get the site back up so that people can withdraw their balances. It looks like this is going to bankrupt my own litecoin balance and I'm going to have to buy a good few litecoins for this on top.  Something similar happened in the first version of the pool but I though that I'd fixed things.  Sadly it appears bugs have returned.  I think it may be time to call it a day. 

The pool's overall statistics can now be obtained in JSON API format at http://litecoin.miningpool.com/totalstats-api.php .  Statistics are updated every 60 seconds.  For those who are compiling charts and statistics of different pools, this should be a nicer way to obtain the pool's data rather than having to scrape the litecoin-statistics.php page.

Thanks to pooler for the inspiration for the page.

The pool has just made its first round of donations to Good Causes.  Check out our Donations to Good Causes page for full details. 

I'll aim to do the next round of donations in a couple of months' time or so. If you have favourite charity, why not contact them to see if they'll accept Litecoins.  If they do and they place a Litecoin address on their webpage for donations, please feel free to nominate them in this thread for a possible future donation from the Pool.  Let's spread the word about Litecoin being a convenient way to give, and do some good in the world at the same time.

Hello EskimoBob...There was an Instant payout button previously but this was removed as there was an issue with people being able to pay themselves twice.  

Instead, the Automated payouts go out every 40 minutes, so if you set the "Automatic Payout" amount to 1 LTC, your full available balance (as long as it's over 1 LTC) will be sent to you on the next 40 minute payout schedule.

Ack had a bit of a problem with Pushpool stealing 100% of CPU power there.  Everything should be back now.  Sorry about the downtime.

Must get the first of the "Good Causes" donations done soon...been meaning to for a long time but if you know me, I'm often late for things :-)  Aiming for next weekend...hopefully

Sorry about that.  It appears that Pushpool started to go a bit odd in the early hours of this morning.  A reboot of the server seems to have fixed things.

Worker passwords can now be changed.  Just click on the "Change Worker Password" button beside any of your workers on your Account Details page and you can update their password. 

Over the last few weeks I've been privately messaging certain people for their Litecoin addresses.  These are people to who the pool will be making its first Good Causes donations.  I think I've receive replies from everyone who will reply by now, so I'm aiming to make the first donations in a week or so. 

Welcome to the pool, pla.  I'm a bit dozy tonight but if you give me a day or two I'll get something organised to enable worker passwords to be changed.

We seem to have hopped over that 1Mh/s barrier by the way...1.041 Megahashes per second at the moment!

Have you tried the different flavours of miner available like pooler's miner or maybe the minerd-corei7-avx from http://www.wuala.com/jbw9/pub/Bitcoin/Tenebrix/miner/win?lang=en ?

Thanks for joining Joshwaa and welcome to the pool.  At 954 Kh/s as I we're only inches away from the big 1mh/s hurdle.  Just a tiny hop and we're there!

Sorry about that - more email spamming going on which brought things to a halt. I've put more bandages around the email system and thinking of just blocking all email....at the moment the bandages mean I'm not getting any email from the site anyway.  Very annoying that people can be so destructive.

Hello tommyl - you need to input a Payment Address on your Account Details page for your Litecoins to be sent.  

Once you've done that, payouts should be every 40 minutes as long as your "Current Confirmed balance" (shown on the left hand panel on the site when you're logged on) is greater than your "Automatic Payout" minimum (shown in your "Account Details" page).  

Apologies by the way to everyone for the downtime earlier today - caused by more email spam clogging up one of the logs.