I think you are just throwing bad money after good if you send him any more donations.
The bounty will only be paid if the new Ants are playing well with p2pool by July 25th, otherwise it will be returned to donators...
I think you missed the main point of my post... The evidence suggests that forrestv is simply not able to fix the problems. If I understand your bounty correctly, it can only be collected by forrestv or his 'representative'. This restriction pretty much assures failure. There may be someone out there who can fix the problem, and who would be motivated to do so by your bounty - but I feel confident that that person is not forrestv. These problems are not new, and I'm pretty sure if he could fix them, he would have already done so.
I would be happy to be proven wrong, but I am not holding my breath...
I agree 100% with the main point of your post, however the problems this bounty attempts to address are not the big challenges p2pool faces.
The goal of the bounty is for S2 & S3 compatibility with p2pool, not the larger problems of variance/share diff for smaller miners.
The news from Bitmain sounds promising, hope they can address it.
The bounty is now up to
BTC1.01.
This bounty expires July 25th and will be paid to Forrest if he (or his designee) comes up with a fix or returned to donators...
Bounty Address: 1Ft1DZ4EcpH1jFttDoPwsFbe11a6diyZ1H
https://blockchain.info/address/1Ft1DZ4EcpH1jFttDoPwsFbe11a6diyZ1HSigned message:
forrestv p2pool antminer s2 and s3 compatibility fix.
Message signature:
G7zuvJ7/LPv7LpZveAsQWet1gAR42bnwFRVPB7NsnGqPnWkN8bqSSN1UwR+NnfDs/8LkruqZcVsTTdfcy5pcNj4=
If you would like to see a working solution for the new Ants from Forrest please contribute and show that we are willing to pay for work completed.
Once this bounty is complete (July 25th), I would be happy to set up another better structured bounty to address the bigger problems of variance/share diff. The challenge as there is currently no known solution will be to structure it properly and establish criteria for receiving the reward.
