Hi, this is bad news to hear. I own HashRate.org shares and I am disappointed to learn this pool is no longer paying miners in relation to LTCGear... I had no idea they were related. Just wondering how difficult it would be to get another pool for NXT up and running. Is there sufficient community interest in a pool of this type? Never saw much hashrate there at least during the 3-4 months I was using it.
I have it listed as a top pool on my site but I must take it down if no payout is happening. I don't want to mislead any one into mining on a rogue pool. I lost a lot of NXT too 
In any case, I still believe the pool can provide buying support for NXT if it had more users and maybe a better system. Unfortunately I don't think I have the skills to run a pool apparently it is very difficult w/o intimate knowledge of Linux. I have little skill using Linux though I have it installed and have used it on and off. I will put some serious time into learning it over the next few months (and years) so I don't have this disadvantage in the future.
I loved the idea and I would love to run a similar site, but I think I am excluded due to my average linux knowledge. A new pool maybe w/o shareholders so nobody gets hurt if it doesn't pan out might be good if someone has the ability. Part of the appeal was the community ownership but this turned out to not work out in the favor of the shareholders in the community >.<
Is there a different pool I can mine at similar to Hashrate.org providing support to NXT price? Otherwise I'll point my 110 MH/s Scrypt at somewhere else and buy NXT with proceeds. Thanks 
I believe a pool is quite complicate business. My 2 NXT about that:
Nowdays the trend with the scrypt pools are 2:
-Straight mining to a currency, autoswitch and paid in several currencies.
-Autoswitch and paid in BTC or almost anything that you choose.
The first ones are the choose for the big miners and people who don't want wait 24-72 hours to get paid and have the time to try to proper trade the stuff into the wished coin.
The second ones looks like the choose for the smaller miners. Good choose if want to save the daily fuss of trade, but some days that you will feel victim of sloopy trades (bad rate for the multicoins, worst rate to the choosed coin). Well automated exchange it's not perfect...
If you think the first ones are your thing, I can give you some directions.
On the second case, you better try yourself and check if the output suits you.
About pools numbers:
10 GHs (like 25 Titans) of scrypt is likely to mine 1.5 to 2 BTC per day, a 2% pool fees will give 0.03-0.04 BTC daily, 0.9-1.2 BTC monthly, and discount the fees of server, ISP,... so the gains with the pool fees for smaller pools are pretty meager... the operators trend to don't care too much and the big miners leave at the minimal sign of pool miss care, so often remain small.
With this profits expectations for small pools the best case scenario is one man operation who can deal himself the tech the support, care the coin daemons are up to date... and love to be a pool operator. Or a bunch of people whose as hobby can cover every section of that pool.
But large pools are not out of trouble, are constanly attacked, DDOSed and try to be hacked. So the monthly security fee is also large and the problems scale up so quickly, so the discontent of the miners whose are going to leave and hold the grudge across the forums...
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