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BTC Guild is a mining pool.

This pool pays out with either Pay-per-Share (PPS) or Pay-per-Last-N-Shares (PPLNS) reward systems.

The service was first publicly available on May 09, 2011.

Reward distribution

• Pay-per-Share: 5% fee.
• Pay-per-Last-N-Shares: 3% fee (pays out block transaction fees and orphaned blocks)

Mining Protocols

• Getwork servers with optional merged mining of Namecoins.
• Stratum servers utilizing variable difficulty (20 shares per minute) and manual minimum difficulty selection (up to 512).

See Also

• Comparison of mining pools
• Pooled Mining

External Links

• BTC Guild web site
• Bitcointalk Current Forum Thread