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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^[1].

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

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).

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-A [[Pooled mining|mining pool]].
+BTC Guild is a [[Pooled mining|mining pool]].
-This pool pays out using a proportional share reward system (your shares / total shares for the round) = % share of the rewards.
+This pool pays out with either Pay-per-Share (PPS) or Pay-per-Last-N-Shares (PPLNS) reward systems.
-The service was first available on May 09, 2011<ref>[http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=7760.0  BTC Guild - 0% Fee Mining Pool (Long polling, JSON API)]</ref>.
+The service was first publicly available on May 09, 2011<ref>[http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=7760.0  BTC Guild - 0% Fee Mining Pool (Long polling, JSON API)]</ref>.
 ==Reward distribution==
-* Proportional: 0% fee.
+* 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==
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 * [[Comparison of mining pools]]
 * [[Pooled Mining]]
 ==External Links==
-* [http://www.btcguild.com BTC Guild] web site
+* [https://www.btcguild.com BTC Guild] web site
+* [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=49417.0 Bitcointalk] Current Forum Thread
 ==References==