I just started mining ZEN here yesterday and already moved to the new server. Things were/are going well but it does look like ports 3058 and 3059 have variable difficulty, whereas port 3059 used to be fixed diff of 8192. Can the OP explain the difficulty strategy if vardiff is the new norm, because on some pools vardiff is seriously broken and ends up pegging at the max value regardless of your actual hashrate.
Hello, the first notice - 3057 for CPU, but nheqminer won't works with Zen, the same on other pools. (but works with HUSH and SNG)
We removed static ports. But in a case that 3057 is free now, and you're are not the first who ask about static port, I think we will return static 8192. We plan to transfer all users during 1 day,
and zhash.pro domian will be used for landing page, with FAQ. So the decision to turn or not 3057 in static mode will be made today.
Also we can make a vardiff with low diff difference for example from 8192 to 16384, i think it can solve you problems if you had them with vardiff
Thanks for the fast reply!
My equihash mining rig does 1860 Sols/s and my current ping time is 130ms so I definitely don't want to go too low in difficulty. Your vardiff strategy sounds okay and a 4:1 difference is fine by me, I just don't want to see a 10:1 or greater range in difficulty, especially if it either pegs at the top end of the range (no longer really vardiff at that point) or it keeps oscillating between the highest and lowest values.
Otherwise, I also like fixed difficulty when comparing miners with my two GTX 1080 test rigs, as it reduces the influence of luck in share count.
But these are minor points and so far I am very happy with your ZEN pool!
UPDATE - not sure if there is an actual problem or not, but balance stats are not updating on the new site nor is my balance increasing on the old site so I have halted mining for now.
). I will report back in 2 days.
