Has this forked? Mining on poolers (on my own) found a few blocks, but very very slow confirmations that seem to have stuck for now?
I know I'd probably get better results mining on the other pool, but its better not to have more than 50% on any one pool, plus I owe poolers because of his generosity earlier. Still havent fixed my card that keeps crashing, but may as well have the others earning while I do something about it.
Don't think so, it was just getting kinda stale for the last 2 days. As soon as your cards went offline people started dropping from the pool like flies over the following 2 days and I ended up being solo in the pool so I went and mined some other coins for a bit. I appreciate you coming back, I will join you.
Not sure how this is going to work out though, its pretty tough to compete with an Official pool. The odds are against the other pools from the start. At first I didn't think much of it, since with most coin launches I have seen official pools were frowned upon and any pool having more than 50% of the net hashrate was frowned upon. I figured people would try to spread out. With CRN people dont seem to care about that as the official pool consistently holds over 90% of the hashrate. Poolers.org has had as much as 20% at its highest point but the net hashrate is still so low that your rig was making up about 60% of that 20%.
I've made a big effort to give people incentive to come over but it hasn't made any impact. I was going to hold a mining contest where each block found would earn you an entry into a drawing, and being one of the people to participate in the pool early on would start you off with a certain number of tickets. I sort of did a pre-announcement of it without going into too much detail of what the reward would be but tried to stress that it would be a very nice reward and would be one of many rewards if things blow up. I didnt want to attract people that were just coming over for the reward only because they would likely leave right after. It didn't attract any attention though so I decided against it. The first reward, which I am already in possession of and was ready to give away pending people making the pool and the CRN coin a success, is a Xbox/Kinect bundle with 4 games. I was having higher hopes though of the participation of CRN and the poolers.org pool for crn at the time that I came up with that idea though. People are treating it like your classic pump n dump though. Most of the talk has been about getting it on an exchange as fast as possible which really shows how little people are planning to sit on it and think about the coin long term. I'm a huge DC fan so I really have high hopes for this coin and would like to see people treat it seriously.
I would think that just the fact that the other pools are not using SSL encryption for their web traffic would be something people would take into consideration when choosing which site to mine with but nobody seems to be concerned with that, not just with CRN but all of the other coins I have been involved with as well. It's not like mining pools are ever the target of attackers right?
Even just the other day there were a couple people complaining that their pool accounts got hacked and coins stolen. This wasnt a CRN pool it was another altcoin. I noticed the pool they were on had no security like SSL and DDoS protection so I let them know that poolers.org has invested in the necessary security to prevent that from happening. Both of them continued mining with the pools they were attacked on. In this case also, poolers.org has the highest hashrate of any pool for that coin so that had nothing to do with it. I think it is just ignorance; not understanding what it is I am trying to tell them, I don't know. Maybe I smell bad *shrug*
