June 20th, 2014 - Dear unit holders,
Details about this week’s dividend payout:
337.48511399 BTC in total from mining and converted NMC’s
- 132.20539483 BTC as dividend (0.00170605 BTC/share)
- 132.20539483 BTC as payment for hardware (538.350818 BTC remaining)
- 73.07432432 BTC as hosting fee
We announced to further examine and experiment with p2pool last week. We have set up our own p2pool node (
http://pool.petamine.co:9332/static/ ) and after several days of testing we can confirm that it is running stable and are ready to direct the entire PetaMine to p2pool.
Therefore we are issuing a vote whether or not to switch to p2pool. The vote will only be valid for current unit holders and held until Wednesday, June 25th 2014 - 12:00 GMT. Votes will be weighted based on the amount of units of each individual unit holder. Based on outcome, we will direct our hashrate to p2pool.
Click the link below to place your vote:
https://nl.surveymonkey.com/s/5KVLXD3Take a look at our public p2pool node (0% fee, so you are welcome to join):
http://pool.petamine.co:9332/static/Important issues to consider:
- Pool variance:
A small pool has much more variance, which has a direct effect on block finding and payouts. Currently p2pool has a pool hashrate of 600 TH/s, together with PetaMine the pool rate would rise to about 1.8 PetaHash. The variance of finding a block with p2pool will be much higher than our current pool ghash.io.
- Merged mining:
Our node will merge mine Namecoin but as p2pool does not support combined merged mining with other nodes, our node will solo mine Namecoins.
We look forward to your vote and to help making bitcoin mining more decentralized.
Team CryptX