In an effort to promote p2pool, I'm going to try something new, and afaik, something that hasn't been done before.
I managed to snatch up a VPS for a ridiculously low price. I'm running a public p2pool node on it with 0% fee. I'm merge mining every single coin I'm aware of that merges with BTC: NMC, IXC, I0C, DVC, GPC, and FSC.
All that's the same as many other nodes out there.
What I'm doing different is not keeping the merged mine proceeds for myself. I'm not even using them to compensate for the VPS fee.
Instead, I'll be donating the BTC equivalent back into p2pool, for all p2pool users to share. Every single satoshi.
The VPS is located in Los Angles, CA, the opposite side of the country of me. Not ideal for me, but it was the one that was available, so I grabbed it.
I'm pointing the majority of my hashpower there - a meager 1 TH/s. I hope to see a lot more from others soon.
The pool address is 96.44.166.190:9332. I intend to find a domain name for it soon, but haven't got there yet.
I also intend to put one of the newer front end web UIs on the node, but for now I'm just using the default.
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