About burst.ga mining poolThere were a few teething issues, some brought to light once the larger load of miners connected.
Fixes have been put live as of this morning (my time) so you should see much quicker stats page startup.
Payments are flowing out okay.
Payment calculation has changed from the previous uray pool code. It is now:
- 50% of block reward is paid out as per "current shares" for that block
- 50% of block reward is paid out as per "historic shares" for that block
(this is after 2% pool fee which is kept back to cover transaction fees)
So even tiny miners can win up to 3,500 Burst if they happen to strike lucky with their nonce and win the current block.
Big miners consistently win Burst by way of the historic shares.
The pool doesn't start generating payouts until about 5 blocks after a win just to make sure the pool REALLY won the block. (Sometimes network propagation delays allow another remote miner to actually get the block first).
Payouts are then shoved into a queue.
About another 5 blocks later payouts are tested to see if they have been confirmed or lost, in which case they are queued again. (Payouts can get lost if sent during a block changeover, for example).
Stats webpage is available at both
http://burst.ga/ and
http://burst.ga:8124/Miners can use
http://burst.ga:8124/Blago miners need to have useFastRcv set to false. Symptoms of you needing to do this look like:
04:33:39 *Count packets of response: 1
04:33:39 *! error parsing (1) message from server
Pool only accepts deadlines less than 30 days. For Blago's miner you could add a line to your config like this: (not at the end - note trailing comma!)
"TargetDeadline": 2592000,
If you submit a bad deadline then you're likely to get a 400 Bad Request response but there will be an error message to go with that.
400 Bad Request responses are also sent out for other reasons - check your logs!
Thank you cat.
Also, to add to this... Of the 2% fee, I'm donating quite a bit by way of the ByteEnt asset (announcement most likely later today with details on asset, etc.) to the amazing BURST development team. I will also be donating quite a bit to the BURST core PR team.
ByteEnterprises is dedicated to BURST's success, and will do anything we can to see it come to fruition.
(edit: I was just informed that the fees currently don't even cover transaction fees fully in the new code, I am going to be having it worked so that it will be 2% AFTER transaction fees, so that I'll be able to donate more to development. ByteEnt asset will be based on a lot more than just pool fees, so there will be more donation anyway, but I would like the pools to contribute as well.)
If anyone has any suggestions on changes to the pool, etc. Just let me know!
Also, if there is anyone who is good with front end designing, and would like to try their hand at making the pool look prettier, please message me with a copy to catbref and we can discuss what is required and what you would be given for the assistance.
Thank you and happy mining! Hope you enjoy the newest coded pools on the BURST market!
Oh, one last thing... Our pools are able to accept ANY miner, there is no need to figure out whether you need this or this miner, ANY miner software will work on the pool. If you run into any problems, let us know and we'll make it work, we're dedicated to making the pools work with ALL burst mining programs!