@ipominer
man, you know what.. X11 is cool, but are we correct making info about which coin currently is mining public? That's killing the whole idea of "new coin business". Look, you analized a few and select a new coin, what's next? After half an hour everybody knows which coin is "can shot", switch on nicehash (they opened X11 port also) and it will be killed in two days.
Lets make X11 a bit shady, only for registered user or something about it.
I "get" and agree with GunPowder's view and goal. While I don't think registering will do anything, I do believe that at IPOminer, we should be mining coins before the community knows about them, while the difficulty is low and the rewards are high (not initial low block coins). I think an IPOminer is willing to take on more risk for more rewards, and that usually means mining brand new lesser known coins that have a good potential to rise in price once the community catches on and finds them. I never even knew about DRM or WWC until about an hour after launch, and I am on the internet a lot. These have been good coins for X11 ipominer, but we did miss out on the first 300 or so of the easier blocks. I keep my miners pointed at the X11 port, and trust that while I sleep or am at work, the fantastic pool owner is keeping my miners on the best coin. He does a great job at this and has my gratitude. I think what GunPowder really wants is just to keep our coin hidden for a while to get easy blocks early before everyone knows about it. Hashcows has done this a while ago by displaying new coins as "MOO", and yes, if you try hard you can kind of figure out which coin they might be mining based on difficulty and their published list of coins they mine, but it is a good idea in my mind. I would be totally in favor of having the X11 port hide what we are mining, at least in the beginning of a new coin launch. I trust the pool operator with a few hours of my mining time blindly to do this. Of course once those first coins mature, they would need to be listed in the account page so that we could put our wallet addresses in, but if the pool did not list the coin in the accounts page until a few hours after it started mining, it would be very difficult to find out the coin we are mining (unless people rent and put monster hash on it). The pool's operator does a fantastic job, and I don't know if this would be difficult to implement, but I think he should think about it. If we wanted just average returns, we could just point our miners at trademybit X11, which uses coinwarz,etc. to determine profitability and switches between the x11 coins, but it will return an average multipool rate. This is a good option for people who have low or no electric bills and just want to auto-convert to make a small daily amount of btc without having to sell coins on exchanges. But I would think that most IPOminer members would like to trust the pool operator, take a little risk with blind coins and blind faith, in order to beat everyone else to the new coins before they explode in difficulty. And I suppose you could almost accomplish the same thing by just going every day to dedicatedpools and see what they are listing soon and just jump on every new coin, but that is not as profitable as jumping on a new coin analyzed by the IPOminer operator to be worthwhile or worth a few hour risk. Long story short, can the pool get on newer coins sooner and hide what we are mining for a while? I, like GunPowder am all for that!