hi all ...
it seemed there were a few issues with autopayments and difficulty issues with mining yesterday ...
with regards to payouts ... this was a matter of the crons ( the auto part of the pool ) not functioning as it should due to the differences in rpc calls of the coin ... scripts adjusted and rerun - tested - and autopayouts running well now ...
with regards to mining ... the heavy miners of the community were getting knocked off the stratum due to the low starting diff ... being in beta - we did not expect that it would be so heavily hit - but there is demand in the mining of goldblocks - and as such - set to work yesterday to rectify the issue ...
a new stratum was setup - with a starting diff of 2.5 that maxes out to 70 - as a test for the high hash miners - using nicehash or miningrigrentals or others ...
testing of the stratum initially had a few bumps - but these were ironed out readily enough ...
the new hidiff stratum is available for use - tanx to the testing that shkbits afforded us the opportunity with - throwing more than 1.6-3.4gh at the pool and stratum ... testing passed with flying colours ...
so now the hidiff stratum is open to community ... details below ...
lodiff stratum setup - stratum+tcp://goldblocks.granitecoin.com:8000/
hidiff stratum setup - stratum+tcp://goldblocks.granitecoin.com:8500/
remember that the hidiff stratum is for those miners that require a starting diff of 2.5 ( which is very high for x11 under most circumstances ) ...
ive seen a few comments about the pool being very responsive - and those comments are very much appreciated ...
the goldblocks pool is based on a very large infrastructure that caters to some of the largest corporate systems in the world ... yes - it costs a lot to have it there - but it is well worth the speed and responsiveness that the pool and stratums provide ... so all your donations to the pool are very much appreciated - though there is absolutely NO pressure for a donation if you do not wish it ...
the pool fee will stay at 0.7% of the mining - it will NOT be raised ...
infact - all our successive pools ( currently granite and ozziecoin ) will be based on the same low fee structure ...
as always - if there are any issues - please inform us ...
tanx ...
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