Topic: Jonny's Mining Emporium (bravo-mining.com) - page 23. (Read 21695 times)

Thanks everyone .  I'm very grateful for the miners on my pool.  It makes me happy that you have chosen to try out a small pool and that your hashing power is not pointed at the big guys instead.

Yes, we were lucky to have already found our first block.  It was found at about 27.4% of expected shares, so a nice surprise.

Since my announcement here, I've noticed quite a few users have registered, and I want to thank you for doing so!  I'm hoping some more of you will point some of your hashing power to the pool as well.

Looking forward to our next block!

Let's wait and hope

Awesome.  Keep up the good work.  Here's hoping ya'll find your next block soon!

What you get with the unit and how long you are there

That's pretty cool you found a block.

GL with it JB 

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I second this too, it has paid

I can confirm that this pool has paid out on its first block on time and without any problems.

May the force be with us. 

So we all know what happened with Nexious, and a bunch of people got burned.  We also know that it seems to be the latest fashion for newbie accounts to announce their own pools.  Whether or not they are sincere, or are just trying to play the same scam Nexious did, I don't know.

In light of this, I decided to open up my own pool.  I figured I'd do the community a favor and offer my own. No frills, no BS. The pool is here for a simple reason: to give you a choice.  The pool mines BTC.  No merge mining.  No alt coins.  Straight up BTC mining.

You can see my announcement here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.13126185

I've actually updated the maximum difficulty since I wrote that to better manage large hash miners.  Here are the current specs:

Pool:                        Jonny Bravo's Mining Emporium
Website:                   http://www.bravo-mining.com
Proxy:                      No
Generation address:  14KxdJ7DfAPsxCYkpcDTcKotjeProcfRPo
Coinbase signature:   /bravo-mining/
Payout method:         PPLNS
Fee:                         0.5%
Pay Tx Reward:         Yes
Vardiff:                    starts at 1042.  Range from 8 to 1048576.
Local Work:              stratum
Pay Orphans:           No
Min Withdrawal:       0.001
Merge Mining:          No
Location:                 US

I've actually held off making this announcement and soft launched the pool at the end of November.  Well, now I'm making it public.

The pool has already found its first block: https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC/block/000000000000000003c3a6ee87941ea88ab99490e7774ae25dc48deb9aa2bf72

Oh... and here's the important bit... the miners were paid for their contributions .

How to connect:

• You MUST register and use a valid email address because the pool requires you to validate
• PPLNS payouts with 5N share life
• MPOS front end running on NOMP stratum
• NO SPV MINING - we mine only on fully validated blocks

Currently we're averaging about 25TH; however, I regularly throw 500TH - 1PH rentals at the site (that's how we found our first block) so the hash rate varies considerably and is why I didn't put any value in the thread title.

So, if you're looking for somewhere to point your hash, give us a try.  You aren't going to get scammed, bamboozled, swindled or defrauded here.  Proof is in the pudding: we've found our first block and miners were paid.

For any support issues, you can reach me here on this thread, by PM, by email admin at bravo-mining dot com, or if you like to chat, I setup an IRC channel on freenode: #bravo-mining.

Thanks, and I look forward to seeing some of you there.