WTF is up with the mining of this coin?
A few calculators show it in the top 3 profitability for Nvidia 1060s & 1070s (I have 4 of each plus 2 1080s) but if I look at the coin's history on BSOD.pw pool, last 50 blocks... most of them are orphans! For the last 2 hours... pretty much all orphans. Is this a problem with the pool's wallet? Or the network?
I am currently mining BWK and I was looking around for an alternative - I don't like auto switching, I'd rather do some research if I have time. Apart from the glaringly obvious point that this is another one of the MANY MANY neoscrypt/ skein / NIST5 / {insert algo here} DASH clones that have emerged (which is obviously great for developers and early adopters who get cheap masternodes and then leech off miners) - this does seem like an interesting coin with reasonable activity here and the dev's comments seem reasonable, etc.
BUT
If one of the biggest pools mining this coin can have 2 hour runs of 40+ orphans there is a problem. Other people recently have posted that on various pools they have mined for long periods with little or no reward - perhaps they too were the victims of long stretches of orphan blocks.
I don't remember exactly how/why orphan blocks occur, but when I started mining ETH 2 years ago, they were just something that happened occasionally and seemingly randomly, and there were maybe 1 in 20 or less orphan blocks on a medium sized pool.
I have never seen anything like consecutive runs of many 10s of orphans in a row.
Anyway, the point is - I am not willing to mine this coin until this issue is addressed by either the dev or a representative of one or more of the pools, and I suggest anyone else considering mining this coin does the same. Yes I am a small time hobbyist miner with only 2 rigs and maybe 10mh/s in neoscrypt - but I have been mining for over 2 years and tried probably 50 different coins. I have never seen anything like this before.
Which pools did you mine? Your pool might be on a forked chain, so led to orphan blocks.
I didn't mine on any yet, I was looking at the stats for BSOD.pw pool, and checked it's data for the last 50 blocks. I'm looking at BSOD because I already mine other coins there and it seems to accurately count my hash-rates compared to what my mining rigs report. I have also been reading previous posts and noticed quite a few people complaining that their payouts were very low and did not match what calculators say.
I know calculators often overstate what is true or calculate as if you were solo mining - but this coin looks like it has a deeper problem because the payout reward seems to be a much smaller fraction of what is calculated than the usual. It's much worse than just stale shares or occasional pool servers dropping out.
If I believed the calculators I use, Dinero would be a good coin to mine right now - but the actual stats for what is being mined don't get anywhere near what the calculators suggest.