Eleuthria,
I have been with BTCguild for a long time.. and Sryptguild since the start I think. I haven't had much time in the last year to keep up to date and do much on the forums; however, I want to wish you the best of luck in your new/renewed business and while what I have left on scryptguild isn't much I want you to just keep it. My hope is other people will do the same to show how much we appreciate all the long hours and hard work you put into trying to make your mining pools the best they can be. As an IT admin I can appreciate the long nights and early morning phone calls/pages/emails...
Come on everyone just leave Eleuthria your final bitcents he has more then earned it!
Naelr
Topic: [CLOSING DOWN] ScryptGuild Auto-Switching Pool - page 3. (Read 102261 times)
But on the other hand, I collect many vintage video games (mostly NES) and I hope you decide to build a website and let us get some great collectibles with bitcoin. 
You're in luck then. The majority of what I deal in are NES, SNES, and Genesis titles. I target buying lots of games which have a few of the rarer titles as well (though they generally sold in under 48 hours once I listed them).
Hey, I'm finally all out of Scryptguild. Thanks again eleuthria. Good luck and take care.
Approx BTC balance != Actual BTC balance.
Right now Cryptsy is having issues with WDC deposits (last deposit recognized was about 3 days ago), so WDC coins have been unable to be converted. My guess is WDC makes up the majority of your approx BTC balance.
The lack of a stable altcoin exchange is one of the larger reasons for this shutdown. The only one with any reasonable volume is Cryptsy (except BTC-e for LTC). And Cryptsy is absolute garbage (constant delays, broken API, and a trading engine which is either flat out bugged, or rigged when trying to match orders).
Right now Cryptsy is having issues with WDC deposits (last deposit recognized was about 3 days ago), so WDC coins have been unable to be converted. My guess is WDC makes up the majority of your approx BTC balance.
The lack of a stable altcoin exchange is one of the larger reasons for this shutdown. The only one with any reasonable volume is Cryptsy (except BTC-e for LTC). And Cryptsy is absolute garbage (constant delays, broken API, and a trading engine which is either flat out bugged, or rigged when trying to match orders).
I switched my miners when I found out the pool was closing, but I still have digitalcoin (DGC), Lottocoin (LOT), and Kittehcoin (MEOW) stuck in my balance. I also have worldcoin pending as well (as you mentioned in the post above), but are there problems converting the other three to btc? I'm a small miner, and I was looking to do 'one big cashout' as not to leave any precious satoshi behind!
I enjoyed your last post with some additional details on your future plans. I've been mining with btcguild for about 3 years now, and I enjoyed ScriptGuild while it was around. I agrees scypt mining is becoming less profitable (and less interesting) each day. My family has been self employed for many years and my parents are always trying to understand 'what this bitcoin thing is.' Needless to say, they don't quite get it...
But on the other hand, I collect many vintage video games (mostly NES) and I hope you decide to build a website and let us get some great collectibles with bitcoin.
I answered it earlier in the thread. The new project is nothing grand, though it will almost surely make more profit than ScryptGuild (which made very little).
It's a used (vintage/cartridge) video game store, with it's own website and extensive eBay integration as well (eBay fees suck, but I just count it as marketing costs for the independent website in the long run). I'm focusing on that project because it's something my parents can help with. My parents were always self-employed, but they're unable to continue their previous business due to my father's arthritis. As such, I'm wanting to focus on this project as a way to help give them something to do during the day, and as a way to help support them.
I previously had one running before I discovered Bitcoin, and it was a lot of fun for me, a good hobby. I got to tinker with eBay APIs to make it so I was able to manage the entire business (including inventory management and shipping) through my own frontend rather than eBay, so the two stores were always synchronized.
It will be taking Bitcoin from day 1!
It's a used (vintage/cartridge) video game store, with it's own website and extensive eBay integration as well (eBay fees suck, but I just count it as marketing costs for the independent website in the long run). I'm focusing on that project because it's something my parents can help with. My parents were always self-employed, but they're unable to continue their previous business due to my father's arthritis. As such, I'm wanting to focus on this project as a way to help give them something to do during the day, and as a way to help support them.
I previously had one running before I discovered Bitcoin, and it was a lot of fun for me, a good hobby. I got to tinker with eBay APIs to make it so I was able to manage the entire business (including inventory management and shipping) through my own frontend rather than eBay, so the two stores were always synchronized.
It will be taking Bitcoin from day 1!
I have just removed my miners and money from the pool. I think it was one of the most profitable scrypt pools.
Thank you very much for your dedication and good luck in your next projects.
Thank you very much for your dedication and good luck in your next projects.
ScryptGuild Closing Down
ScryptGuild is going to be shutting down on September 27, 2014. The mining servers will halt in 2 weeks, which is August 10th.
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These days, it looks like it's time to work on that project. It is not only one that I have been wanting to do, but also one which I believe has a much brighter future than a scrypt-coin mining pool.
ScryptGuild is going to be shutting down on September 27, 2014. The mining servers will halt in 2 weeks, which is August 10th.
[...]
These days, it looks like it's time to work on that project. It is not only one that I have been wanting to do, but also one which I believe has a much brighter future than a scrypt-coin mining pool.
Eleuthria, you've posted this general statement here and on the scryptguild website. It just feels like a teaser/cliffhanger statement, but you don't shed any light into your future project.
Any hints on the topic?
Will there be a status update when you get going on that project?
Thanks for putting in the long hours to get us to here. I'm glad that when you threw in the towel you let people know in advance. Its not always obvious or an easy decision.
He mentioned it in the BTC Guild thread - I think it will be something separate from mining which he has put off because of the Guild sites. Moving on to bigger and brighter things.
ScryptGuild Closing Down
ScryptGuild is going to be shutting down on September 27, 2014. The mining servers will halt in 2 weeks, which is August 10th.
[...]
These days, it looks like it's time to work on that project. It is not only one that I have been wanting to do, but also one which I believe has a much brighter future than a scrypt-coin mining pool.
ScryptGuild is going to be shutting down on September 27, 2014. The mining servers will halt in 2 weeks, which is August 10th.
[...]
These days, it looks like it's time to work on that project. It is not only one that I have been wanting to do, but also one which I believe has a much brighter future than a scrypt-coin mining pool.
Eleuthria, you've posted this general statement here and on the scryptguild website. It just feels like a teaser/cliffhanger statement, but you don't shed any light into your future project.
Any hints on the topic?
Will there be a status update when you get going on that project?
Thanks for putting in the long hours to get us to here. I'm glad that when you threw in the towel you let people know in advance. Its not always obvious or an easy decision.
As the pool is slowing down and users are pulling coins out, the balance between exchange vs coin daemon is continually being adjusted to continue letting people clear out their balances.
WDC is still completely screwed up due to Cryptsy (~90k WDC currently in limbo), but the coin was removed from the switcher as soon as I was made aware of the issue, so anybody continuing to mine won't be getting new WDC unless they manually picked it.
Please keep in mind that on August 10th (Sunday), the pool server will be shut down. Exact time isn't known, but you should assume any time after 12:01 AM it may go down, so moving prior to August 10th is recommended.
Once the pool server is shut down, minimum payouts will be lowered to 0.0001 and payouts will get processed once per 24-hours. Amounts less than 0.0001 will not be paid (but amounts > 0.0001 will get every last satoshi paid).
WDC is still completely screwed up due to Cryptsy (~90k WDC currently in limbo), but the coin was removed from the switcher as soon as I was made aware of the issue, so anybody continuing to mine won't be getting new WDC unless they manually picked it.
Please keep in mind that on August 10th (Sunday), the pool server will be shut down. Exact time isn't known, but you should assume any time after 12:01 AM it may go down, so moving prior to August 10th is recommended.
Once the pool server is shut down, minimum payouts will be lowered to 0.0001 and payouts will get processed once per 24-hours. Amounts less than 0.0001 will not be paid (but amounts > 0.0001 will get every last satoshi paid).
It took a while but I was finally able to get all the coins out - even Kittehcoin - moved it to cryptsy and managed to get a billionth of a LTC 
Wow I learn something new every day. Nicehash/westhash is an interesting concept.
so which pool are people jumping to when Scryptguild goes offline
http://poolpicker.eu/table pick one
I picked nicehash...highest avg. payout for last 13days
so which pool are people jumping to when Scryptguild goes offline
The lack of a stable altcoin exchange is one of the larger reasons for this shutdown. The only one with any reasonable volume is Cryptsy (except BTC-e for LTC). And Cryptsy is absolute garbage (constant delays, broken API, and a trading engine which is either flat out bugged, or rigged when trying to match orders).
Interesting insight. I don't do cryptocoin trading so I'm not really familiar with exchanges. When shopping around for another altcoin switching pool I chose multipool because it was one of the bigger ones and also had good integration with what I though was a reputable exchange (cryptsy).
Maybe I need to rethink this.
Honestly, your only choice is Cryptsy for altcoin trading at any reasonable volume. They work fine "most of the time". Realize that my complaint is coming from somebody who was targetting > 99.99% uptime with BTC Guild (the colo itself has not even had 1 minute of downtime in the last 3.5 years). When an exchange works 99% of the time, that's a lot of time it isn't working.
The lack of a stable altcoin exchange is one of the larger reasons for this shutdown. The only one with any reasonable volume is Cryptsy (except BTC-e for LTC). And Cryptsy is absolute garbage (constant delays, broken API, and a trading engine which is either flat out bugged, or rigged when trying to match orders).
Interesting insight. I don't do cryptocoin trading so I'm not really familiar with exchanges. When shopping around for another altcoin switching pool I chose multipool because it was one of the bigger ones and also had good integration with what I though was a reputable exchange (cryptsy).
Maybe I need to rethink this.
Approx BTC balance != Actual BTC balance.
Right now Cryptsy is having issues with WDC deposits (last deposit recognized was about 3 days ago), so WDC coins have been unable to be converted. My guess is WDC makes up the majority of your approx BTC balance.
The lack of a stable altcoin exchange is one of the larger reasons for this shutdown. The only one with any reasonable volume is Cryptsy (except BTC-e for LTC). And Cryptsy is absolute garbage (constant delays, broken API, and a trading engine which is either flat out bugged, or rigged when trying to match orders).
Right now Cryptsy is having issues with WDC deposits (last deposit recognized was about 3 days ago), so WDC coins have been unable to be converted. My guess is WDC makes up the majority of your approx BTC balance.
The lack of a stable altcoin exchange is one of the larger reasons for this shutdown. The only one with any reasonable volume is Cryptsy (except BTC-e for LTC). And Cryptsy is absolute garbage (constant delays, broken API, and a trading engine which is either flat out bugged, or rigged when trying to match orders).
Hi,
Is there any reason why my approx btc balance has started accumulating way past my threshold and isnt getting paid out regularly like it used to?
To put things in perspective my threshold is set to .01 and my approx btc balance has reached .1.
This just started happening a couple of days ago. Previously as soon as my approx balance got a little bit above .01 it would pay the whole thing out and start again.
Is there any reason why my approx btc balance has started accumulating way past my threshold and isnt getting paid out regularly like it used to?
To put things in perspective my threshold is set to .01 and my approx btc balance has reached .1.
This just started happening a couple of days ago. Previously as soon as my approx balance got a little bit above .01 it would pay the whole thing out and start again.
That is epic.
Ah thanks for the heads up man. I did do a bit of reading and was picking up on that from previous questions.
I've really enjoyed using the pool. I've been checking loads of others out and they're difficult to get into. Plus when you start mining it doesn't seem like you're connection with their servers is a quick.
When I was mining on the pool I was doing it with this as well...
http://minellium-falcon.tumblr.com/
A 1978 Millennium Falcon turned into a mining rig.
Best of luck with the new project man.
I've really enjoyed using the pool. I've been checking loads of others out and they're difficult to get into. Plus when you start mining it doesn't seem like you're connection with their servers is a quick.
When I was mining on the pool I was doing it with this as well...
http://minellium-falcon.tumblr.com/
A 1978 Millennium Falcon turned into a mining rig.
Best of luck with the new project man.
Thats so dope, I bet she hashes at about 256kh/s scrypt and some BTC as well probably huh. so Cute was that a 200 USD rig? or 190 + the Mfalcon musht have cost a penny.
That rig also looks like its heat just sat around and made more heat. hate to say i got 30X that running on a single ac unit, I think i jumped in at a great time though.
I also just happend to Nail on the Dime getting out of scrypt guild, i have been raiding redd coin pools and realized that SG is my failover pool and i had 200k satoshis left in eles Cryptsy account. so guess ill have to pull up BFG miner and Change my Zeus miners to a different fail over after REDD coin goes down. I guess Thanks Ele for the Solid pool, i was a little dissapointed after being told about a rewrite and a new coin list. your pool has responded the best to my miners/situation. I appreciate that, I hope we can work together again someday. Maybe if you let us SG members in on your new little secrete thats goign to out do scrypt mining... anyway. *in some tears Bye
Actually around 335kh/s at 850 freq. I only got the Gridseed because it fits well into the Falc. It was my original from when I was a kid that was pretty much destroyed so got some missing parts off ebay pretty cheap and got her rigged up. Have another one in a box at home but is nowhere near as satisfying as this.
I thought it might open up Bitcoin to a new audience. The parallels are infinite. The rebel alliance taking on the dark Empire... The Falc being a smuggler ship. I've just started up on TradeMyBit pool and it seems to be the next best thing to SG. I've been getting requests to do a Slave I version which might well work as well...
Glad you enjoyed man. Feel free to donate to the cause...
May the Bit be with you.
Here we go man. Fresh from my editing booth...
http://minellium-falcon.tumblr.com/tagged/film
I've switched over to multipool.us and it seems pretty groovy. Easy user interface, many supported coins and good integration with cryptsy.
(I assume it's not in bad taste to recommend other pools in this thread now that scryptguild is closing.)
(I assume it's not in bad taste to recommend other pools in this thread now that scryptguild is closing.)
What are BTC/Mh/day and ping time u've got?
My little GPU "rig" only hashes scrypt at about 140 kH/s. I don't know what btc/mh/day means.
My ping times to the nearest servers run around 40 ms.
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