After much tweaking and testing we are excited to announce our North America server us.wemineltc.com is now online.
Many of you also asked for port 80 mining and we have delivered. The us.wemineltc.com server runs stratum on port 80.
The other exciting addition is VARDIFF. Variable Difficulty (VARDIFF) changes the difficulty of work sent to your miner based on it's power. This means less traffic sent, more targeted workloads for your power and less load on the servers. This is great news for both those with low power and high power. Low power users such as CPU miners will greatly benefit from the VARDIFF as our pool difficulty of 64 was too high for some lower end CPU miners (and older GPU's). Our main eu.wemineltc.com server will have VARDIFF online tomorrow so you don't need to switch to get the benefit of VARDIFF as it will be online very soon.
Important Info About VARDIFF - Please be aware that with VARDIFF online, shares are now weighted based on difficulty. The higher difficulty a share, the more it is worth. You may notice your shares go up on VARDIFF with others shares going down, yet they get paid more, this is due to their shares being a higher diffuclty. We plan on implementing some statistics on site to help you understand the weight of your shares shortly to make it more clear.
Port 80 - many of you asked for the ability to mine on Port 80 and the us.wemineltc.com server is setup for this. This allows people behind restrictive outgoing firewalls (like at companies) to mine. Please be aware the main eu.wemineltc.com server does NOT support port 80 mining, it still uses Port 3333.
Stratum Proxy BETA - CPU Miners Only - to make life easier for those of you with non-stratum miners such as minerd for cpu mining will no longer need to run the startum_proxy.exe on your local PC. Now you can connect to the stratum proxy on the us.wemineltc.com server at port 8332. (Proxy for eu.wemineltc.com coming soon) So for minerd.exe it would be minerd.exe -o
http://us.wemineltc.com:8332 -u yourworker.x -p yourpw. Only use this server if your client doesnt support Stratum. If you can use stratum, use it! You will get better results. This proxy is for those of you with cpu miners that can't use stratum only. This is BETA, if you have issues switch back to using the stratum proxy on your PC.