So is there any place to mine UNO now or mine and get paid in UNO? The only things I've found are the Jumbuck cooperative pool, with no stats and 5% fees, and Xpool.ca, which is merge mining it, but not paying it out. I supposed I could just buy some but up until a couple days ago I was happily mining UNO. Mintsy's pool is still up but who knows what good that is going; the Multipool.us port appears inactive... is UNO just going to be some dust coin that pools give out to justify fees?
Look into mmpool.org. It's easy to see what you've earned in Uno/Btc/Dvc/etc.
Ispace.co.uk is also merge mining Uno.
Jumbucks switches between the most profitable coins, sells those coins on the market, then buys Uno from the market and pays you. It's a nice option, but because of the conversions involved, their fees are higher.
About Uno being a dust coin.... I guess it is, given the high difficulty now and the reward schedule... my mining now only produces dust, compared to a week ago. But not all dust is worthless (Gold dust, for example).
Uno is valuable, and sought after. I'm also buying it off of exchanges. Since we hit block 600k and the reward dropped and merged mining kicked in, I've been buying 7.5 Uno per day from exchanges, which is the total daily inflation. Uno is rare. It's not behaving any differently than we knew it would. So I suppose it is a dust coin now, and we knew it would be a dust coin eventually, but I don't see that in a bad way.
On mmpool, so far I've earned .01 Uno, .05 NMC, 130 DVC and .021 I0C. For fun, I just priced my dust holdings on exchanges:
My Uno is worth 12390 sats. My NMC is worth 130063 sats. My devcoin is worth only 520 sats. My I0C is 4316 sats.
At the moment on Mmpool, Uno is less profitable than NMC but more profitable than DVC and I0C. And IXC? They pay NO rewards any more. They are completely mined out, giving miners no reward at all.... whereas Uno will pay miners from the remaining 55,000 Uno that will be mined over the next 300 years.
Uno's price is cheap right now, imo. As anti-gravity kicks it, I predict it will become the most profitable altcoin in merge mining.
I think Uno certainly makes good sense for merge pools to add. It makes bitcoin mining more profitable. If the miners don't want their Uno, fine... sell it me. I'll buy their dust.