Hey Josh,
This had probably been asked before, but will EMC be ready for the wave of ASIC? I assume you'd get a ton more traffic with all the shares being submitted. Was just hoping once I get my new tech, I'd have a pool I could start mining with.
Pretty much every pool except for deepbit is ready for ASIC hashrates.
I've spent the past few days scouring thru
this thread, and only like half of them seem to be ASIC ready. I consider ASIC ready to be Stratum and VarrDiff, but I'll accept GBT and manually adjusted diff, if you must. Now you would know more about what goes into making a stable pool ASIC ready than I would, but I'm just looking for who has the features I want. Either way, I only found about 5-6 pools that I considered to be top notch, and EMC was in that list.
Although it is not ideal, any pool that does any of the 3 below is ASIC ready:
1) Stratum with VarDiff <- ideal
2) BGT with VarDiff <- works
3) Getwork with roll-n-time and VarDiff <- (n-time issue - but works also)
In cgminer, getwork with roll-n-time and VarDiff can support up to about 1TH/s with a GetWork call every 30 seconds.
The problem with that is that the time of the block gets further and further into the future - up to ~1hr 16min - average ~58min (Eligius used to do this regularly)
Now if most people were using this, the network would start rejecting, on occasion, valid blocks with the correct time - so yeah it's not ideal at all.
But someone with, say, only 100GH/s would only ever create a block a maximum of about ~12min in the future (average ~6min) so it wouldn't be 'as problematic'
Though, IMO, not trying to keep the time correct in the block header is a bad idea from the start
