Topic: [POOL][Scrypt][Scrypt-N][X11] Profit switching pool - wafflepool.com - page 108. (Read 465769 times)

Hey, everyone

Introducing Waffle Pool Widget for Android

I've made a simple widget that lets you monitor your hashrate and balances. It's pretty basic so far but I will add more features when I get around to it.

This widget will always be free and will not require mandatory donations. Give it a try.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.inductiveconcepts.wafflewidget

There must be one as the linked stats display has worker charts (at 1 hour resolution)...
Miles

PW,

I've asked that before but received no answer. (Or quite possible missed the reply  )
Is there an API to pull the individual stats?
I know that there is one for global, but I need to pull my workers stats, and would like to avoid screen scraping.

TIA,

A.

Hey, everyone

Introducing Waffle Pool Widget for Android

I've made a simple widget that lets you monitor your hashrate and balances. It's pretty basic so far but I will add more features when I get around to it.

This widget will always be free and will not require mandatory donations. Give it a try.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.inductiveconcepts.wafflewidget

I'm a big fan of wafflepool, have been from start. Personally as a few others suggested I feel 1% to 2% is too much of a jump, a 100% fee increase is massive when the edges are already so thin between various mining pools. 1.5% be much more of a fair compromise I feel.

Don't say sorry - 2% is perfectly OK for all your efforts and hard work. We love you and your pool, of course.

But please-please-please, make a Scrypt-N pool as soon as possible! Even if it will be only one coin from the start (e.g. VertCoin) or few of them, just make a Scrypt-N pool. It will be great for many of us, GPU miners. We'll appreciate that.

I know they are a bit overpriced (a lot!), but what is crushing me is the energy bill...

I have currently a system doing 1200w for 2.5 mhash and another for 1000w doing 1.8 mhs...
Plus my main systems with 1.7mhash doing 700w

So it s a lot of consuption... If that gridseed costed 200€ but have 660khash, that would be a good alternative, but for now i don´t think so...

Too low khash for so much money...

LPC

We've been the lowest fee profit-switching pool since our start, but we do have to raise the pool fee from 1%, to 2%.<...>
Again, sorry it has to happen, feel free to rant about how this is the end of WP/multipools/etc, it wasn't a decision made lightly.

You obviously have a serious mental disorder and I hope your seeking treatment for it..  

I'm using the widget. Does it auto update? Would love the option to set custom auto-update times.

Thanks for the reply.  Again something I had not considered as I have only one mining rig.  So this would have to be done at stratum server level and would terribly complicate things by needing user registration to manage such things as someone suggested  (I nodded off and fell asleep watching TV and did not notice your reply for a while).  Well it was a thought anyway for PW to reduce his transaction costs and make him more money.

If user registration becomes required, might as go all the way and make options for payout coin at a specific threshold and trading options so you can hold coins until user selected threshold is reached or let it be traded to BTC automatically.

Hey, everyone

Introducing Waffle Pool Widget for Android

I've made a simple widget that lets you monitor your hashrate and balances. It's pretty basic so far but I will add more features when I get around to it.

This widget will always be free and will not require mandatory donations. Give it a try.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.inductiveconcepts.wafflewidget

Depending on how it works it might be enough to send just one share at an appropriate time. Not easy to pull off and kind of pointless, but so is a DDOS.

If you don't think it's a risk, how about another scenario. Let's say I have 20 rigs pointed at waffle and decided I don't want a 2-day payout anymore and would like daily instead. Or the other way around. Change config on each and restart just to change the payout schedule? What if the rigs end up with different settings, accidentally or otherwise?

I think it's just not the type of setting that's suitable for configuring at the mining software level.

@suchmoon you replied:
I wouldn't trust anything that can be changed by knowing just my address, which is not supposed to be secret in the first place. I can put it in my signature like utahjohn here and that should not mean I don't get paid today.

my reply:  I had not considered that before I proposed the idea  Indeed this could be used as a vector for pool attack ... but isn't "userpass" submitted with every share submitted and would negate the effect of someone else hijacking your address to change your threshold? And thus attacker would have to be mining for you I don't understand the inner workings of stratum protocol.  Correct me if I am wrong.

And explain to me how this could be a problem and potential exploit, it would still be shares going to your payout address ...  

We've been the lowest fee profit-switching pool since our start, but we do have to raise the pool fee from 1%, to 2%.

In an effort to keep with the transparency that this pool has always tried to put forth, a full explanation of the reasoning/rationality follows.

Essentially, it is nearly impossible to run the pool the way I'd like it to be run at a 1% fee.  Of that fee, a huge portion comes off the top immediately to exchange fees.  Using cryptsy as the example because most of our exchanging happens there, we lose 0.3% immediately.  We also lose a bit (depending on the coin) to transaction fees to get coins from our account, to the exchange, a bit more from the exchange to our bitcoin account, and a decently large chunk in bitcoin fees (this has gone down in 0.9, but its still a decent amount with our volume of low-priority coins) when we run payouts (and a lot more on sundays when we run 0.001 minimums).

After all of these fees, plus hosting costs (which have doubled due to the DDOS and constant attacks on our boxes), DDOS protection, server monitoring, etc, we're left with an extremely small amount for actually running the pool.  At the end of the day, with me working on the pool for 40hrs/wk (a very conservative estimate), I'm looking at what amounts to a manager's job at walmart.  Except the manager at walmart doesn't get woken up nightly due to server pages.

Essentially, for me to be able to justify the amount of work I put in on wafflepool, I need to raise the fees.

I've been wrestling with the decision for a few weeks now, and during the start of the DDOS/attacks was at the point of saying "fuck this, its just not worth the stress", but decided to fight through it and get 3hrs of sleep a night for the week.  We're back, and today is our best profit day in a while (thank god for bad luck streaks...), but its at this point that I need to raise the fees to make it worth it to run in the future.

2% seems reasonable to me.  It matches almost all of our competitors (who were smart enough to do it in the beginning), and isn't a huge change to the end user (1% to 2% isn't a major change in profitability).  And allows me to sink more work into the pool without feeling screwed at the end of the day.

Again, sorry it has to happen, feel free to rant about how this is the end of WP/multipools/etc, it wasn't a decision made lightly.

You have an iOS version so I can try it out?

Hey, everyone

Introducing Waffle Pool Widget for Android

I've made a simple widget that lets you monitor your hashrate and balances. It's pretty basic so far but I will add more features when I get around to it.

This widget will always be free and will not require mandatory donations. Give it a try.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.inductiveconcepts.wafflewidget