Did you miss where he posted that he was sick?  Be patient, I'm sure he'll get to you eventually.

Hello Miners,

Few announcements:

- Thanks to all of our miners for giving us a great stress test,  we found some inefficiencies in our code, and our pool keeps getting stronger

- We've put up a third server frontend and latency times are much lower.  If you switched to another pool until we fixed the lag, now is the time to give us another try   

- Pool join requests have all been processed.  If I missed yours, I'm sorry there were a ton, send me another PM.

- We made some small improvements to our hashrate estimate in the web interface, but it is still a work in progress.

- Thanks for the kind wishes, I'm feeling much better today 

Chris

Thanks 

We use AWS for all of our servers right now, and they are all located in the US.

Out of curiousity

Any idea what the total hashrate is for pool currently?

Thanks, I did miss them.

1) Your Loyalty Points are equivalent to the number of shares you have submitted, so you can see your total loyalty points in the "Total Shares" column of the web interface

2) No Loyalty Points have been redeemed yet, so the Total Shares column represents the total number of points you have

3,5) We don't have any indicators on the web interface when the price drops below $2.5/ghash/day but we'll post in this thread when it crosses the threshold if it happens before we get our automatic payment system online.  The automatic system will have an indicator. 

Currently, for us to cross the price floor threshold, BTCUSD price would have to drop to $6.7 or difficulty would have to increase by 175%.  The current 95% PPS rate is equivalent to $4.23/ghash/day.

4) $2.5/ghash/day is based on the MtGox 24hour average price.   If for any reason MtGox is no longer the most reliable source for pricing, we'll  discuss this change in this thread (but that seems unlikely in the near term).
4.1) No Loyalty Points have been redeemed yet, so the proportion for all users is 0.

Is today Monday? 

Payouts will be starting in ~30 mins.  Right now, we are pushing some new features to the admin pages that will streamline the payout process.

Announcement:

The week of 9/9/12 has been paid out.

We have changed our week boundary from midday Monday PST to 12:00 AM Sunday UTC, so the statistics on the web interface will match payouts. 

As such, this week's payouts reflect about 5 days worth of mining, because the first couple days of this week were paid out last Monday.  Also, many of you have already earned coins this week, those will be paid next Monday.

Starting next week, we'll pay out the amount seen in the web interface for that week (or 2% more if you submitted more than 1.125M shares).  This should alleviate the confusion some of you having with why our payouts don't match the numbers in the web interface (it was because they were using different time periods).

If you have any questions, send them my way. 

Thanks,

Chris

PS:  I wasn't able to get through the Pool signup requests.  I didn't forget about you and I'll process you first thing tomorrow.

PSS: Our CTO is testing some improvements of our Hashrate Estimation in the web interface, and is now testing it on the live site.  So far the numbers look better (they weren't very accurate for large hashrates before), but you may see some weirdness tonight as we try different variations.  This estimate is completely separate from credit calculations, so seeing weird numbers doesn't put your mining earnings in jeopardy in any way.

Much better!

I wouldn't mind a 60 min average or adjustable.

What he said. Or the bits of it I understood anyway. BTC Guild - rock solid. CoinLab - sputters like crazy.