Greetings Monero Miners! I am posting this on behalf of Snipa, the developer and operator of the newest Monero mining pool server software. I encourage you to checkout xmrpool.net. The pool server software was developed by Snipa with optimizations by Wolf. Snipa has his pool running on really high end hardware all across the globe to ensure low pings, fast block notification, and reliability. He's estimated that his high-speed backbone gets block notifications up to 20 seconds faster than if he was using the normal network.
Snipa is a long-time supporter and user of cryptocurrencies, with a 10 year+ background in system administration and working with both legacy and greenfield software stacks, with a habit of being available 24/7 if something critical goes wrong. Snipa is always available on #monero-pools and is willing to help new users or check out any issues you may be having.
FeaturesThe
pool source is some of the most feature-complete pool-source available for XMR, and we're continually looking for new features to add. As such we're often on the cutting edge of features for the pool community, and welcome feedback on how we can better serve the miners!
Supports direct to BTC payout via ShapeShift.io and Xmr.to, with the pool continually evaluating both for stability and best exchange prices.
Miner/rig notifications - a huge part of what drove us to develop xmrpool.net was the fact that miners are looking for more details, more information, more everything! We do our best to ensure that miners get the most information about their rigs that a pool can provide. We put into place a rig monitoring system with email notifications as well as per-miner stats tracking.
Adjustable payouts - this means that exchange miners, who were often required to mine a particular amount of XMR, can adjust down as low as .3 XMR per payout. We highly suggest verifying the minimum amount that your exchange will accept! -- For this, you will need to use a simple registration system that involves your e-mail, details on this can be found
here! This uses the same system as the e-mail notifications for "logins"
Competitive Fees - With the change to RingCT, many pools began to raise their fees. We opted to implement a feature alongside adjustable payouts, where between .3 (our minimum payout) and 4 XMR, the fee you pay decreases as the withdraw amount increases, and there's no fee when your payout is above 4 XMR! This puts
you in control of what level of transfer fees you pay.
Supports payouts via Payment ID as well as Integrated Addresses.
Globally distributed mining nodes - xmrpool.net was designed from the ground up with Snipas experience using distributed systems, which is even more critical these days. In order to provide the best, fastest pooled mining, we maintain an array of pool nodes in various countries and geo-locations. By connecting to mine.xmrpool.net, our system will find the best pool node for you.
Professional system administrators and developers. Some of the core pool code was written by miner developers Wolf0 and OhGodAGirl. Leveraging their experience with the cryptonote implementation, they were able to provide massive speedups to the Monero pool community by releasing updated pool code that drives share validation, allowing miners to know faster if their shares are accepted, and getting back to the important work of hashing!
Mining here supports and helps to direct the development of new features that will become part of the wider Monero network. Snipa has a lot of other Monero-related developments coming, and any support is always appreciated!
Getting StartedLike most other pools, just point your miners to the following ports and then check your stats on the pool webpage. You can get per-rig monitoring by modifying the "-p x" portion of the command to "-p rigname"
mine.xmrpool.net:5555 will get you started!
For a full list of ports, checkout this page:
https://www.xmrpool.net/#/portsIt is best to use the mine.xmrpool.net URL, because Snipa uses a geoDNS to automatically direct you to the closest pool server, and this will also re-route you in case the server you are connected to goes down. So no need for backup pools on your config!