I feel that the pool is finally stable and working as it should. I'm going to be increasing the fee to 3%, effective right after the next payout, at 7:30 PM PST tomorrow (~21 hours from now). The fee is applied during mining, not paying out, so anything mined until then has a 2% fee.
The reason for the increased fee is:
- To cover server costs. I've had to upgrade my server, and put an additional support server online. Also in the plan is an EU server, and possibly others.
- To cover unexpected transaction fees in some of the coins. Most don't cost anything to send money, but a few do.
- Because I feel that the pool is worth it.
TODO, in order of priority:
- Increase database performance. This will prevent the random disconnects that last around 10 seconds. The last such disconnect was maybe 8 hours ago. This may also reduce the rejected rate
- Add some reporting.
- Pool Profit graph, with litecoin comparison
- Pool hashrate graph, with reject graph.
- Per-user page with profit graph
- JSON API
- Alerts that email (or text for a fee?) miners when their miner stops submitting blocks. Along with this, I may add workers, so you can log in with.1 with one rig, and .2 with your other rig.
- Alerts that text me when there is a problem.
- Do a more advanced stale/reject calculation, not based on what the miners are reporting, but try to infer their actual hashrate.
- Do a lower difficulty test, to see if it increases hashrate.
- Add an EU server. This will take some time, since I probably want it to interface with the same database as my US server. Once this server is up, I'll look at a global map of our hashrates and pings, and possibly put more servers up, because it will be easy after the EU one.
- Make the coin transitions seamless, and only occur when a block is found. This will reduce the rejected rate, and increase the hash rate slightly.
If you feel any of those items are high priority, let me know.
The reason for the increased fee is:
- To cover server costs. I've had to upgrade my server, and put an additional support server online. Also in the plan is an EU server, and possibly others.
- To cover unexpected transaction fees in some of the coins. Most don't cost anything to send money, but a few do.
- Because I feel that the pool is worth it.
TODO, in order of priority:
- Increase database performance. This will prevent the random disconnects that last around 10 seconds. The last such disconnect was maybe 8 hours ago. This may also reduce the rejected rate
- Add some reporting.
- Pool Profit graph, with litecoin comparison
- Pool hashrate graph, with reject graph.
- Per-user page with profit graph
- JSON API
- Alerts that email (or text for a fee?) miners when their miner stops submitting blocks. Along with this, I may add workers, so you can log in with
- Alerts that text me when there is a problem.
- Do a more advanced stale/reject calculation, not based on what the miners are reporting, but try to infer their actual hashrate.
- Do a lower difficulty test, to see if it increases hashrate.
- Add an EU server. This will take some time, since I probably want it to interface with the same database as my US server. Once this server is up, I'll look at a global map of our hashrates and pings, and possibly put more servers up, because it will be easy after the EU one.
- Make the coin transitions seamless, and only occur when a block is found. This will reduce the rejected rate, and increase the hash rate slightly.
If you feel any of those items are high priority, let me know.
Sounds good. Your pool is probably less than 5% efficiency from more than doubling in size, (likely even without efficiency increase) also assuming the increase in fees.
At what point will exchange volume factor into this potential growth? This question was posed by another earlier in this thread I believe. I could speculate that the LTC market will diversify holdings and hash in the coming days/weeks and it could serve to help balance the market.
