The Bitminter mining pool will shut down mining activities on 2020-07-01. The website will stay up until 2021-06-01 so you can cash out any crypto currency on your account.
It is unfortunate to have to shut down after 9 years of mining. However, to keep going would not be fair to the few miners we have left in the pool. The efforts of miners who have tried to keep the pool going is greatly appreciated. But the pool has shrunk so much that we might never find another block. Attempts to bring big miners onboard did not work out.
A big thank you to everyone who mined with Bitminter over the years. This has been a grand adventure.
The original purpose of Bitminter was to make mining accessible to those who found other mining software difficult to operate. For many of our users mining in this pool was their first experience with bitcoin. I hope you enjoyed it and that you are still part of the bitcoin community.
Hopefully Bitminter was a useful service for you.
Best of luck for the future.
Below is the original message that was posted here:
Mint new bitcoins at the Bitminter mining pool!
Why you want to join us:
- A brand you can trust, serving your mining needs since 2011
- Over 700 000 total users since launch
- Merged mining - free namecoins with your bitcoins, without slowing your bitcoin mining
- We pay income from transaction fees in addition to the freshly minted coins
- 99% of mining income paid out
- Under continuous development and improvement
- Choose a user name and sign up at https://bitminter.com/signup
- Point your miner to mint.bitminter.com:3333 with your user name and a dummy (x or 123) password
- Profit