2 so far. Everyone else is enjoying their holidays.

Which 2 pools allow us to merge mine LTC/VIA at the moment?

I've been mining VIA non stop from the beginning even at a loss because I want to support the block chain.
It would be nice to get some profit out of it with merged mining.

     

Thanks, I will take a look over there.
 

It appeared they havent upgraded yet.  I usually talk to them on IRC on ##ipominer (freenode)

Ya I got him on DM via twitter.

So guys, what ya'll need to do is start contacting pools and ask them to add merged mining for Viacoin.
Pools that mine LTC almost invariably support merged mining and currently merge mine doggy with LTC.

merged mining allows an unlimited number of child coins with something like LTC etc as the parent.

So this needs grass roots, people to go sending emails, making tweets, getting on IRC channels. I've been doing it also.
You can get a good list of pools to inform here: https://www.litecoinpool.org/pools

Yeah... about 7-8 GH more than usual hashrate. If chinese pools add VIA it will become more rare than LTC.

Coinking.io are now merged mining. I believe ipominer and multipool are also in the works.

both are viacoin miners, I dont think they have upgraded to MM yet. Please be active an encourage your favorite pools to upgrade: spend time in IRC, send email, etc.

Yes, I contacted them: The network is fine, but any software clients that were not upgraded to 0.10.6.x have been left behind. This is because auxpow (merged mining) is a hard forking change so once the rules come into effect, old clients cannot proceed with the new rules. As I wrote in a previous post, most miners and all the important services like Bittrex, Bter etc upgraded before the network transitioned. It just happened a little sooner than expected.

My last communication with ipominer today is they will migrate to merged mining.