@PPOC: you most certainly did give it the old college try
. Let's find that block shortly!
@LASERminer: Thank you for your support, and your generous gesture. I certainly appreciate the donations, and you are right, those funds are indeed used to help support the promotions I run (as well as server costs). You are also correct in that I've funded every promotion out of pocket. LOL... I am definitely not Satoshi, nor do I have millions of coins (or dollars for that matter since I didn't win the PowerBall last night
). I have, however, been lucky enough to make some coin in the past few years I've been mining, and during this pool's existence. Because of the pool's luck thus far, I've been fortunate. Just to give you an idea, since the pool has started I've personally spent well over 75
BTC in rentals and close to 10
BTC in promotions and contest giveaways. I have received just over 1.3
BTC in fees and donations. I'm not stating these numbers in an attempt to boast, but rather to show the kind of dedication I have to support the pool and all of the miners who are putting their faith, and their dollars, here. Besides the coins, I have spent many hours of time ensuring the best mining experience. That comes in the form of writing code to enhance the mining software, setting up servers in multiple geographies, ensuring redundancies of the coin daemons and database, providing local stratum servers, fighting off DDoS attacks, and more.
So, please, let me say a heartfelt thank you to all of
you. It is because of you that this pool exists and continues to grow. I look forward to the future and am glad you are all along with me for the ride
.