h20, do you think that the hashrate being so large is what is causing the lack of profits?
Seems like if you can't divert hashrates that it would be more beneficial (to the miners) to have a smaller hashrate, or maybe divide it up into smaller pools that can go after different coins simultaneously. I know as the pool op you want a large hashrate, but have you made any progress on possibly diverting miners to mine multiple coins concurrently?
For example, you said Franko was the most profitable, so have you been working on a system that would see that and divert like 100MH/s towards that, and some towards xxcoin, and yycoin, and maybe leave some on FTC, etc.
Yeah, the hashrate being large is causing a small lack of profits. It would be nice to redirect a portion of the hashpower. I've made no progress on that task so far. It will be a while before I have that, if ever.
I've identified an issue, causing our mining of SPT to be counterproductive. When calculating profitability, I use the difficulty of the *last* block found, not the *next* one. This is an issue with all coins, but was exaggerated with SPT because it has such high diff variability.
I can solve that easily, if anyone can help me figure out how to convert from target to difficulty.
For example, with litecoin:
target: 0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000bf84c0000000000
difficulty: 851.44759513
I've read that:
difficulty = 0x0000ffff00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 / target
But that math doesn't seem to work out. Anyone know?
Edit: I figured it out.
