flound1129,
When you post here that there is a problem with a coin and you are working on it, could you also add an update to the 'news' on your website home page?
I look there first before I come to this thread and start reading backwards through the posts, trying to figure out if there is an issue and you are aware of it.
Thank you!
Also, I do think something gets skewed with DGC profitability when there are multiple blocks per minute. I certainly do not think it is a situation of you taking advantage of the pool. I see I am earning a fair share of each block and when I look at how many blocks the pool is getting I think the reality of earnings is less than expected compared to 'profitability' calculated from hash rate and difficulty. Rather than come here to accuse you of something when DGC is getting the resources of the multi-port I prefer to switch my miners to a direct port on an alternate coin.
tl,dr; When the difficulty of DGC is really low it is a disappointment to mine via the multi-port and I try to avoid it when I can.
Finally thanks for putting your time into running the pool and dealing with all the BS associated in this endeavor!
I will try to keep the site news more up to date.
As far as DGC, there was an issue with one of the pools the time zepadee posted which was causing us to not submit blocks properly for about 1/3-1/4 of the hashrate.
If you look at the last time we mined DGC, it was much better, you can see the very smooth hashrate distribution under My Stats which was much better looking than the previous one (which has scrolled off by now, unfortunately).. The difficulty changed at block 463320, Multipool found 386 valid blocks and 19 orphans between 463320 and 464400 when the difficulty went back up.
So we found almost 36% of the total valid blocks during that low difficulty period which is very reasonable when you consider that we were at around 750 MH, Middlecoin was probably around 900-1000, and the rest of the network was probably at least 500-600. In fact we probably found more blocks than we should have. The network hashrate graph shows a peak at 3.83 GH/sec but I don't know how accurate that is.
386*20 = 7720 DGC, in about 85 minutes
7720 * .00013 BTC/DGC (current price) = 1.0036 BTC
1.0036BTC / 750 MH/sec / 85 minutes = 1.574e-5 BTC/(MH/sec)/minute, * 1440 minutes/day = 0.02267 BTC/(MH/sec)/day for that time mining DGC. That is 130% of litecoin or 670% of BTC profitability (assuming LTC was around 500% of BTC at the time)
So I think we're doing OK with DGC. We don't get the calculated 1200% returns or whatever, but it's still worthwhile to mine DGC, assuming the pool is working properly.
