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Greetings Eligius Miners,
After much discussion, Luke-Jr has decided retire from his post as Eligius pool operator and has turned over the keys to Eligius to my care.
There are many reasons behind this decision, but I'll summarize by saying that Luke has many many things on his agenda which, in my opinion, are more important than the day to day maintenance of running a mining pool. And since we obviously don't want to shutdown the pool, it was decided that I would be the best candidate to take on this task.
For those who know me on IRC and otherwise, you already know that this will not be any kind of issue and falls well within my expertise. For those who don't, here's a little background. I'm a mostly self-taught programmer, hardware engineer, network engineer, and any other IT field you can think of. I have close to 20 years of personal experience in the field and over a decade of professional experience. As for the Bitcoin community, I've been involved at various levels from the moment I heard of it's existence somewhere around a year ago. Since then I've contributed as much as possible, most recently with the redesign of the Eligius stats pages to be more server-side friendly. If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to shoot me a message on IRC or other contact method.
Without sounding too much like a politician, for the moment, and in general, my goal is to do my best to make sure the pool continues to run smoothly.
In the short term, this means I plan to implement CPPSRB, a replacement for the current SMPPS reward system, which will get Eligius back on track and get current and new miner's paid more quickly for their work. This has been on the table for some time, but it is a significant undertaking to code, test, and tweak (as can be noted from some discussions about the matter in #eligius recently). I hope to have this particular project under way very soon.
I will also continue development of the "New Stats" to provide more and more information in the best ways possible.
As always, I plan to stick with the ideals behind the pool in general, continuing to be supportive of things like no-signup mining and providing as much openness as is possible regarding the operation.
There is much progress to be made, and soon! I'm glad I'll be along to help keep everyone mining away!
Sincerely,
- -wk
Contact: wizkid057 at gmail.com (Email, Google Talk, etc)
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