Hi Rob,
First let me say that you are doing an awesome work with Gridcoin.
I have being trying the new pool but I found something that I think it's not right, the pool is paying accordantly to shares submitted and is counting the overall shares since first day when we enter the pool, that makes very hard to climb our earnings and it's an disadvantage to someone entering the pool for the first time, or am I seeing something wrong?
Other thing is I can't get the scrypt sleep working for my GPU's If I select use always GPU on Boinc it will use them all the time even when they are at work, if I select never use GPU when scrypt sleep comes it will not process Boinc projects what am I missing were?
Thank you,
João G.
Hi João,
Im glad you like the pool, thanks.
On scrypt sleep, weve been trying to ensure a smooth start and after the last release moved it to 74000. (The release notes were wrong).
On the pool newbie payments, the original intent was to base the pool on a 7 day lookback period (assessed off of last_seen), to give everyone pool competition who finds blocks.
The code does pay newbies based on 1 block divided by submissions, and I realize now that I see the stats they are really getting tiny amounts.
I will look into something more fair for newbies, maybe splitting 7% of the pool over the newbies instead of 1 block.
But anyway, I think the 7 day lookback itself is more fair for people finding blocks, as it is impossible to defraud the pool when you have mined blocks vs share submissions (ie higher integrity).
Grid
Hi Rob,
I think I didn't explained me quite well about what I was seeing...let me take another shot
Let's take for example Aesyrin, he as 49 blocks found so far and the last time he connected to pool was in 3/5/2014 2:04:04 PM, for every block found in pool he's receiving payments for it without contributing with shares.
So he can get two payments this way, because he can be solo mining receiving the entire block and get payments from pool for some days without being pool mining ( 7 days if I understand it right ).
Following this strategy one can do the same, being pool mining for 1 day or so, just to keep up the same share percentage at the pool and the following days being solo mining, I think this is not fair to no one.
Hope this helps.
João G.
PS: Please don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to judge any one, just choose Aesyrin because it was the perfect example to explain what I'm seeing wrong about pool payments.