Stats back up.
All this doesn't explain why I now receive a transfer every few hours instead of a mining reward every few days!
Has the way the pool operates changed?
yes there has been some changes, see below
Greetings miners,
So, on to some minor fixes/changes.
Since I dropped the minimum payout amount down to 40 TBC (~0.04 BTC) the coinbase/generation transaction has been reaching the set maximum outputs almost every block. This means that the balance ends up in the pool's cold wallet and needs to be paid manually later (which I have been doing).
In an effort to address this without increasing the size of the coinbase transaction (which can cause problems with miners that have low memory or slow hosts) I've modified the way the coinbase transaction is created slightly with regard to the payout queue.
Here is how it worked previously:
- Sort addresses in queue by balance age, oldest to newest
- Pay addresses until either the full coinbase/reward amount was consumed or 128 outputs were paid
- If less than the full reward were consumed, and less than 2000 TBC remain, send the balance to the offline "change" address.
- If more, pay 2000 TBC to the offline change address, balance to the main offline wallet
Now it works like this, changes highlighted in
green:
- Sort addresses in queue by balance age, oldest to newest
- Pay addresses until either the full coinbase/reward amount was consumed or 100 outputs were paid
- If less than the full reward were consumed, re-sort the addresses in queue, highest balance to lowest balance
- Pay addresses until either the full coinbase/reward amount was consumed or 28 outputs were paid
- If less than the full reward were consumed, and less than 2000 TBC remain, send the balance to the offline "change" address.
- If more, pay 2000 TBC to the offline change address, balance to the main offline wallet
This has the effect of better filling the coinbase/generated payout transaction with more miners that are due payouts by effectively allowing miners with the largest balances due to jump ahead in the queue, only when needed, to better pay the full block reward directly to miners, instead of to a pool offline wallet for manual payment.
Summary: The payout queue should be paid out automatically the majority of the time and faster than it has been with less manual payouts needed. More fresh coins for miners.
Happy mining!
-wk