Welcome back, Whalesburg community!

While we crack on with the complete version of the product, our maintenance developers are happy to announce a new update to our MVP. After diving into v0.2.1 and hearing your thoughts, we’ve addressed some minor glitches and added some promising new features.

The most exciting announcement of this release is the addition of 2 new coins. After monitoring WhatToMine for over week, we looked for coin options that had the greatest probability to be more profitable than ETH. We can’t wait to see how these 2 new coins perform!

Here’s a breakdown of what’s been added and amended to improve the MVP:

Added ETC Coin

We’ve added Ethereum Classic (ETC)! Born in July 2016, ETC is a continuation of the Ethereum blockchain, and is fully decentralized, immutable and unstoppable. The coin has reached new price heights in February, and continues to be one worth watching.

With much hype around the Callisto airdrop on March 5, the crypto world will be keeping a close eye on ETC.

Added UBQ Coin

The Ubiq blockchain is a decentralized, peer-to-peer, open source coin built upon an improved Ethereum codebase. It is also a decentralized platform for making decentralized applications (ÐApps).

Born in January 2017, Ubiq is a strong and competitive alternative to Ethereum.

With the addition of ETC and Ubiq, this new release gives miners a total of 5 coin options in the smart multicurrency mining pool. More options can only mean a greater probability of profit, so we’re eager to see how these 2 coins benefit miners.

Added Bittrex Integration

For those familiar with our previous version, Cryptopia integration gave miners easier access to exchange coins to ETH. In this release, we are happy to announce that we have integrated Bittrex Exchange.

By adding Bittrex integration, Payout Manager will now automatically exchange ETC, Ubiq, and Expanse coins to ETH — other coins can be exchanged via Cryptopia.

While Cryptopia can take around 6–7 hours to process exchanges, Bittrex works much faster, and usually processes exchanges in less than an hour.

With the addition of an efficient and trustworthy exchange like Bittrex, we’re certain miners will have a better user experience.

Alpha Testing (Automated Tool)

We’ve got an exciting future release in the works… but we want to keep it a secret for now!

We can reveal that we’ve begun Alpha testing on this currently hidden new tool. Shortly, 10 Whalesburg miners will receive an invitation to participate in the Alpha test. The testers will adhere to a set of rules when using the module, and will report their feedback to us.

Comments and criticism from our community is invaluable, so we’re looking forward to seeing how we can improve this module prior to finalising it.

Fixed Bugs

We’ve kept our eyes and ears open for any glitches in the current MVP.

Here’s a rundown of the bugs we’ve fixed:

· Race condition in Open Ethereum Pool when it tries to ban a miner

· Race condition in Smart Stratum Proxy when 50+ miners reconnect to it

· Miners Bounty: Fixed hashrate calculation when awarding WBT

· Added –mode 1 to Claymore command to run it only in ETH mode

· Added MiningRigRentals instructions

· Fixed a glitch where WBT balance was not updating despite a transaction being created

At Whalesburg, we’re big on improving functionality while also maintaining maximum security. Your feedback plays a crucial role in improving our product, so make sure you connect with us — we’d love to hear from you.

Thanks for your support!

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