like what coinshift is doing? With bias towards most profitable?

@bmoconno We can enable direct ports for any coin that we have on the site, but we currently don't publish those because our mining of most coins will be fairly short-lived. Either they will die off or become too widely popular within a week or so and we'll move on to something else. If there is demand for a specific coin, we're happy to set that up. Thanks for the reminder about the footer links. I've had that on my list to fix for a while but hadn't gotten around to it yet. Its fixed now.

Unless there are new coins that looks more promising, I suspect we'll be sticking with BlitzCoin for a while longer -- profitability on it is good at current levels, and it has the potential to rise because of the limited mining period (only 10,000 blocks total to be mined, and it is currently at block 5812, which means there are only 4188 blocks left now.

Thanks for the feedback. We had considered offering fully managed trading of mined coins, and may offer it in the future.

You're right that isn't really possible to make pool-wide direct comparisons between us and auto exchanging pools. I do mine with 7MH myself currently and am expanding to ~22MH next week, so I try to offer my own profit calculations whenever people ask.

The rest of our beta test group of miners can certainly attest that my returns are not unusual for people mining on our pool Smiley

We typically have a good group of experienced miners/traders on our IRC channel and have frequent discussion of "when to sell" -- feel free to join us there.. the more the merrier!

Now it's at half of what I've sold for over the last few days. IPOminer, I know you said that other coins don't have the buy support for a pool our size, but surely there has to be something better than Blitz now, right?

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Why do you say that? Just because it has a limited quantity? That means absolutely nothing

All ill say is that BLTZ now goes for 185 satoshi, compared to 320 just 24 hours ago. In addition satoshi has dropped and keeps dropping in value since then also

I'm just worried that the Blitz network dies as soon as the mining period is over, which miners want to maintain a network where they only getting transaction fees on a coin that wasn't designed to be used for transactions? 

We're removing SpainCoin from ipoMiner as they've forked to scrypt-n, we haven't mined it in weeks, and don't anticipate mining it again in the foreseeable future. We'll be removing coins from time to time to avoid having to run and maintain excessive amounts of wallets, and to discourage people from using ipoMiner for long-term storage of coins. We're testing the process with SpainCoin initially because there is only a small total balance of it with ~43 miners affected, but there are a few other coins we will be removing soon.

The process for removing coins will be to post the removal notice on our News section and email everyone with a balance, 2 weeks in advance. We'll send another email notification again to those who still have a balance 1 day before the coin is removed from the site.

We sent the following notification to everyone with a SpainCoin balance via email last night, but I'm posting it here just in case someone might have missed it:

"In 2 weeks we will be removing SpainCoin (SPA) from ipoMiner.com, as it has not met our criteria for mining recently and we do not anticipate we will mine it again in the future.

Please withdraw your current balance of SpainCoin prior to 11:59PM Eastern Time on April 13, 2014. If you leave balance on the site past the deadline, it will be treated as a donation to ipoMiner.

We remove coins from time to time to conserve resources and to discourage long-term storage of coins on ipoMiner. Please consider withdrawing coins to an exchange for trading or to a local wallet regularly in the future.

Feel free to email us at support@ipominer.com if you have any questions or issues surrounding withdrawing your remaining SpainCoin.

Thanks for mining with us!"

@n2nshadow MintPal, Bittrex, Poloniex, SwissCex, CryptoAltex are a few I've used recently.

I personally transferred coins out of Cryptorush via trading it to AUR a few days ago, and started advising people to sell and get out even at a loss. Hopefully everyone has done so by now, or is in the process of doing so ASAP.