Nope, no way to see it.  I'm annoyed by the fact that I'm in CNMOH's pool (since we're competing with him), but that's just the way it is.  I clicked his banner first.  I thought about creating a new account to take my wind out of his sails, but I won't bother.

That would halve my pool's hashing power

To say that this is not a pyramid scheme is a bit naive. Most pyramid schemes actually work on a referral basis. The money has to come from somewhere, someone has to lose out.

But Sukrim, as Auspician says, you don't make a choice between joining or creating a minipool. In fact, you won't really be affected at all by which pool you're in. Even if you're not in a minipool, you still pay the same 1% fee as everyone else. You're essentially always in two pools: Your own, and your referee's. You don't lose anything by using a referral link.

Yeah if the whole idea of this is to get a bunch of people to work for you, I don't have enough friends who know the first clue about bitcoins or mining, and doing it alone hasn't yielded any results. Granted I have a lousy hashrate, but even with deepbit (until recently it seems) I was getting something.

I've been continously mining at triplemining for at least 24 hours and haven't had one acceptance, with deepbit it was almost right away, so what's the deal?

lol

75 minutes to go in my timezone... 7GH to go, its gonna just fall short. Brilliant effort though people. I've been watching this pool's progress since it started whilst earning my noob badges on the forum and planning/buying my rig. I'll be with you by the end of the week hopefully.

For the referral minipool system... are there any objections if I borrow (alter slighty) one of you guys' signature banners, and use it on here and on all the other forums I frequent? So many people have still not heard of bitcoin, and if their first point of contact is triplemining, then it might sign them up.

Another element that makes this pool unique compared to the others like slush's (which I was CPU mining at for about a week) is the marketing. The great way that MrSam is open to suggestions and turns around ideas quickly, and is coming up with new gizmos and gimmicks, and the friendly colours and settings, make it appeal to the more social miners. What does it say about me that I joined mainly because of the picture of cute robots in space? lol

My first rig will only be 400MH/s or so. Once that settles in, and triplemining goes from strength to strength, I will add and upgrade.

MrSam - have you thought about any incentives/rewards for solely CPU miner accounts? I guess this is tricky since they don't contribute much to the pool overall and it is hard to monitor exactly who is solely CPU mining. I only mention it because a lot of beginners want to try it out first without upgrading/burning their graphics cards. If CPU mining returned some reward for their efforts (CPU only starter minipool?), they may be persuaded to become 'proper' miners and long term help triplemining. Just a thought.

Andy

http://hashwith.me

 

So in the end I have to create a "pseudo"-account where I just CPU mine (or GPU mine with very low priority - just enough to be called "active") and a second one that is my "real" acount referred by the first one, to get most of the 1% fee back...

Too much hassle for a simple mining pool really, where no transaction fees are distributed, 1% of income is being gambled with and which even runs proportional(!).

In theory the system sounds interesting but the fact that this refspamming and -linking is already getting out of control (with threads like this one, which is about the SAME pool, as in many other threads here as well) is very likely to harm the pool's reputation more than you might think.

What is the common thoughts on these?