Popular scypt mining pool ScryptGuild has posted the following message late yesterday:
ScryptGuild is going to be shutting down on September 27, 2014. The mining servers will halt in 2 weeks, which is August 10th. Users will have until September 20th to withdraw their balances before the coin daemons and wallets are taken offline.
I would like to thank everybody that has joined ScryptGuild to date. The pool was a fun new project to work on, solving the problems of maintaining state within multiple coins over a single server to keep shares valid even during switches, and allow fast user switching on demand. I am very sorry that the pool ended up entering a period of non-development for so long. The rewrite was something I looked forward to, but the external factors which kept delaying the rewrite ended up pushing a different project into the front of the line. I do not want the pool to become another ArsBitcoin/Deepbit, where it just continues on with no direction and no updates, dying of atrophy, and as such have decided that shutting down is the proper action to take.
At this time, I’m trying to get another non-pool related project off the ground, which is something I’ve been putting off for a few years (before BTC Guild even started). These days, it looks like it’s time to work on that project. It is not only one that I have been wanting to do, but also one which I believe has a much brighter future than a scrypt-coin mining pool.
This is particularly upsetting for many in the mining community as we just recently reported that BTC Guild is considering shutting down in light of the recent NYFDS BitLicense proposal.