Pool Policy

General Definitions

• Mining pool: a centralized endpoint, consisting of one or more Verus daemons, a public website, a database, software to hand-out work, retrieve results, store mining statistics, submit new blocks to the blockchain and process miner payments in a fully automated fashion.
• Mining software: the program a user runs in order to connect to the mining pool, retrieves work, processes that work and submit the results to the pool.
• Mining address(es): The address you supplied in your mining software.
• Miner: a user that runs or has run at least one instance of any mining software and has successfully connected to the mining pool.
• Worker: running mining software that submits work to the pool using a workername.

Terms of Service

Data needed to run the pool

• Mining addresses.
• Amount of submitted shares per worker.
• Amount of Verus paid per worker.
• Hashes and amount of blocks found successfully.
• Hashes and amount of blocks found, but rejected by the Verus chain.
• The rewards in every found block (coinbase released coins + fees).
• Payment history (TXIDs + transactions submitted to the Verus chain).

Additional data

• access and error logs on mining ports and internal communication (daemons + database).
• website access and error logs.
• Database transaction log.

Data retention

The following data is currently kept indefinitely

• Hashes and amount of blocks found successfully.
• Hashes and amount of blocks found, but rejected by the Verus chain.
• The rewards in every found block.
• Payment history.
• Database transaction log.

The following data is kept for 6 hours

• Global pool hashrate.
• Global amount of submitted shares.
• Worker hashrates (Hashrate for a mining address is calculated by adding all workers for that address).
• Worker submitted shares (Shares for a mining address is calculated by adding all workers for that address).

The following data is kept for 14 days

• access and error logs on mining ports and internal communication (daemons + database).
• website access and error logs.

The following data is kept for 30 days after last connection of a miner address.

• Individual statistics on the workers.
• Worker balance.
• Worker paid.

The following data is kept for 90 days after last connection of a miner address.

• Mining address.
• Mining address balance.
• Mining address paid.

The following data is kept for 100 days

• last recorded active date per mining address.

Data privacy

• Data that is displayed on the website is available to everyone. This includes Mining Address, Worker, hashrate, Balances and Payment details.
• The pool has no control over who accesses the website, nor how any 3rd party will use the public data.
• Miners that are inactive will disappear from the Worker Stats List on the webpage after 5 minutes.
• Miners that are inactive will have mining statistics on their Mining page up to 6 hours after they stopped mining.
• The Mining page of an inactive miner can still be accessed using the Miners Mining address for up to three months.
• Miners that are inactive will have balance and payment statistics until they are (automatically or manually) removed from the database.
• Miners that found a block will be displayed on the Pool Stats page, until 8 or more new blocks are found and have matured.
• Data that is not publicly visible will be used by the pool, solely for the purpose mentioned in this policy and will not be shared to 3rd parties.
• Processing non-public data is automated wherever possible, in order to minimize human access.

Right to be forgotten

• wait three months (91 days) and your data will be removed automatically.
• Contact quipacorn (long DiscordID 265650923051810826) on Verus Discord through a DM and request removal. You will be asked to prove that you own the address you request removal for by sending a transaction (lite wallet) or signing a message (native wallet).
• Removing your data will result in a Mining page for your mining address that shows no data and zero balances.
• Verus.farm is NOT able to remove a mining address from a payment transaction. These transactions are immutable on the blockchain.
• Once your data is removed, the pool cannot restore that data for you.

Mining Policy

• If an invalid Mining address is used, the mining pool will disconnect. If for any reason the disconnect fails, the rewards for the invalid Mining address will be converted into a donation to the Verus Foundation, address i81XL8ZpuCo9jmWLv5L5ikdxrGuHrrpQLz.
• If a worker is submitting consistently low difficulty shares (more than 50%) the connection to that worker will be severed for 5 minutes to ensure undisturbed mining for all other miners.
• If a worker is submitting consistently invalid solution version shares (typically happening with older, incompatible mining software or incompatible mining platform) all connections from the originating IP address will be automatically severed and blocked a minimum of 1 hour, where each following ban will increase the ban time, to ensure undisturbed mining for all other miners.
• If a worker is submitting illegal characters (only ASCII alphanumeric characters are allowed for mining addresses and worker names. Typically happens when using a TLS connection to a non-TLS port) all connections from the originating IP address will be automatically severed and blocked for a minimum of 10 minutes, where each following ban will increase the ban time, to ensure undisturbed mining for all other miners.

• Attempting to spoof shares to trick the reward system.
• Attempting to spoof authentication and/or connections.
• Attempting any malicious mining activity.
• Attempting to disrupt normal operation of the mining pool.
• Attempting to exploit any possible vulnerabilities.
• Attempting to identify possible vulnerabilities, without prior notification.
• Mining from platforms on which mining activities are not explicitly authorized.
• Giving workers names which are inappropriate, crass, or of a nature which could offend others.

Payment Policy

• The verus.farm pool provides transaction id and amounts for all coinbase rewards paid on the payments page and each miner's dashboard.
• The verus.farm pool does not control and is not responsible for the wallet addresses provided by miners. The verus.farm pool does not manage or provide wallet services.
• Mining rewards are distributed directly to the wallet address provided by miner.
• It is the responsibility of the miner for any wallet address used for mining purposes.
• Do not mine to an exchange address, invalid address or any address you do not have control over (private keys).
• The verus.farm pool requires mining to a transparent Verus address (R-address) or a Verus Identity address (i-address).
• All payments by the verus.farm pool can be proven valid (confirmed) by (3rd party) block explorers.
• In order to fund the transaction fee for payment to the miners, 0.00005 VRSC is deducted from the block reward, after the 5% donation, before the rewards are distributed to the miners balances that are entitled.
• Payment to the miners supplied addresses take place, when the balance is greater or equal to 0.01 VRSC.

Dev fee mining

• Mining software developers are welcome to use the verus.farm pool for mining their dev fees, but there are conditions to prevent disruption of pool operations for other miners:
  1. Dev fee addresses cannot use more than one workername.
  2. Dev fee connections from miners that are not mining on the verus.farm pool (eg. directing all dev fee traffic to the verus.farm pool, regardless where they mine), can originate from at most 10 (ten) unique IP addresses (IPv4 + IPv6 combined).
  3. Dev fee mining cannot use non-standard stratum methods.
• Failure of the mining software to comply with the above conditions will result in automated termination of services for dev fee mining in part or in full.

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