I got the below message to my reddit inbox and I wish to give update on this post and to explain what really happened and what is upcoming.
Virtamining Pool payout from kryptokoinz sent 12 hours ago I am still waiting for the "pending" payout of 72,822.568993 VTA at virtamining.com. On the forum you are suggesting people should mine VTA, but the mining pool does not function properly. I am not going to go away, so I suggest you either fix the payout or send me the VTA. Thank you. Kryptokoinz (admin@virta-coin.com) , 1. We will like to advise everyone to keep mining.
We will like to explain to the community a bit of what really happened, as we have said before in some of our previous post, the language that was used to develop our site was built on Python Django, so the developer left some bugs on the site and was busy with his own schedule, not really paying attention to the site. We have spent a lot of money on the site just to fix bugs, we have spend thousands of US Dollars and the bugs was not still done, the other devs we hired to work on the site created more bugs. Getting the first dev to work on the platform is a problem.
The mining part was develop by him, and when this payout have problem he will come up and he will still not do it, telling us that he have 10 hours for a week for our project and at end of that week only 2 ½ hours was spend to our site.
Now I have personally revoked our contract and project with him, because we can’t be held down by anyone or developer.
On the mining site we have gotten 2 dev to work on this payout, the first dev billed $20 per hour at end of 5 hours he say he can’t see any error, and we pay $100 for the five hours, the second dev try for 2 days and was not able to fix the auto pay, and we pay $220 but he was only able to fix withdrawing the coin manually.
We are going to completely remove all the project done by the dev, when we are done with upcoming new projects then we are not going to use them anymore including the mining pool.
WE HAVE GOOD NEWS FOR THE COMMUNITY; we have awarded some of the projects including mining pool to companies to develop. This time we award projects to companies only, no longer to individual developers.
We wish to inform you that all your mining are safe, but for now we may not want to manually withdraw the fund because of mistake, in as much as you are still mining and the site is still running. But on the final day that we are going to switch over to the new mining pool, we will contact everyone to submit their VTA balance on their virtamining.com. Since we cannot make a Withdraw directly from your balance, but we can make total withdrawal to our wallet and from our wallet send to everyone.
So I advice everyone to still keep mining, you can never lose a dime on your mining. We are building a better mining pool than the current pool, as we have been advice.
Finally, on the current virtacoinworld.com, VTA local market and crypto exchange will still be functioning, including the mining pool. We will give adequate notice when we are going to make integration.
Thanks
Able Digital