Block action is awesome today, great, thanks!
Minor question-invalids for the whole pool seemed to went up from 0.4% to 0.8%.
Does this matter? What is the typical cause?
i saw them as low as 0.3% before and the number seems to fluctuate a lot.
There's a few things at play there:
When the pool finds a block, all the block counters reset to zero.
Thus initially the % will be very high since the first shares arriving will have a lot of stale shares, like for any block change.
But since the stats are zero, they show up as a large %, but with the % dropping as time progresses.
There are some miners with really bad software in their miners.
If they don't actually fix it, I ban them unless they have a reasonably high hash rate.
There's also, of course, anyone mining from inside the GFW to the main pool node, they should expect higher than normal invalids.
Normally it settles around 0.4%
