SFR Informational PostUpdated: 3 October 2015I decided to compile some information, most notably, a list of pools still in operation for the 5 algorithms, and on the correct blockchain, as the OP is a mess of dead links, and bad pools. Overall mining is much more healthy than since my first post, with 4/5 algorithms now generating blocks inline with the coins specifications. Therefore I will continue to update this post in order to further encourage mining.
SFR HealthcheckGroestl, Sha and Blake are regularly generating blocks as intended and in good health as they have active regular miners.
Scrypt has a working pool, and sometimes people solo mine it, but as of late it is struggling to find blocks as the difficulty was pushed up quite high.
x11 has serious problems as it has no dedicated working pool, no regular miners and is attached to a powerful multipool. The multipool drives the difficulty up sky high, and then they abandon mining once it becomes unprofitable. Therefore X11 hardly ever generates a block unless someone decides to solomine it at a severe loss. If difficulty comes down due to solomining, the multipool pushes it up again, making it rather futile to try and mine.
The great strength of multi-algo coins, is that that despite 1 algorithm being in poor health, 4 have been in continuous good health for some months now, meaning the coin still functions perfectly, and blocks are generated regularly. At all times in the coins history, at least 2 algorithms have been working, meaning blocks still generate and the block chain keeps moving. Multi-algo coins have always been under appreciated, and Saffroncoin is probably the best one out there, despite the lack of progress from the dev in recent months and a low price, it is still fundamentally a solid, well developed coin.
Members of the community are still running nodes, we are still mining the coin, and some people are even still buying. Pretty much everything this coin needs to do to survive, someone who posts in this thread has it covered. It's amazing to see so much support of this coin still about. Thanks to everyone who keeps this thing afloat. Shout out to Kid Brook especially for keeping so many working nodes up and running.
Working PoolsX11No known pools!Please see problem described above in the healthcheck section before attempting to solo mine this coin, so you understand the problem. If you spend some time bringing the difficulty down, you will be very disappointed when you see it pushed straight back up again. Ideally if you want to help here we need an X11 dedicated pool set up.
SCRYPTInactive pool: http://p2pool.e-pool.net:8967/static/This new P2pool opened on the 14th August 2015, but has not really been used. Scrypt can also be solomined with the right hardware at the moment. The difficulty is currently quite high but will hopefully come back down in the coming days.
GROESTLInactive pool: https://www.miners-pool.eu/#!/pools/saffroncoin-groestlNo one uses the Groestl pool very often, but it is working with only a small fee if you want to use it. The difficulty is low, and the algo is being supported by solo miners even though the pool is mostly unused.
SHA-256DActive pool: http://ispace.co.uk/coindetails/?coin=sfrOne working pool with active miners, also competing with solo miners. Probably the most competitive algorithm to mine at present, several miners.
BLAKE256Active pool: https://www.miners-pool.eu/#!/pools/saffroncoinThis pool finds all the Blake blocks at the moment, and is very active. Probably the easiest way to earn some small amount of SFR if you have a low power home PC type setup/rig, that isn't suitable for other types of mining. Despite having regular miners, none of them have a particularly high hashrate, so plenty of coins to share with mid to high range graphics cards.
Mining RewardsThe current block reward is 21 SFR. Each algo is targeted to generate a block every 450 seconds. Each algo therefore can produce 4032 coins per day, for 20160 total new coins a day across all 5 algos. The actual amount of new coins a day is less than this, as X11 is not being mined. The true number of new coins a day is about 16k a day.
NodesIf you are having trouble getting your wallet to sync, you can use the following nodes:
addnode=23.229.124.34:19717
addnode=23.95.112.227:19717
addnode=23.95.112.118:19717
addnode=23.95.112.228:19717
addnode=198.46.156.221:19717
addnode=23.95.112.219:19717
addnode=23.94.12.100:19717
addnode=172.245.56.167:19717
addnode=192.210.135.149:19717
ToolsBlock ExplorerStandard block explorer (with rich list etc.)
Difficulty ChartShows difficulty of all 5 algos on 1 graph. Recommend changing view setting to only the most recent 10,000 blocks to make sense of it.
Mining Breakdown Shows the % of blocks being mined by each algo over the past 500 blocks. Also shows you who is mining the coin.
Exchangeshttps://www.cryptsy.com/markets/view/270
