So a quick status update for you guys.
First off, pool is good and stable for the time being (hooray being able to handle an 8x pool expansion overnight!)
Second thing, I've temporarily disabled coins with difficulty under 10 (even 10 may be a bit low). Essentially under this difficulty, we're fighting ourselves with orphans due to average block times, and network propagation rates (read: lower profitability).
Our system does support mining multiple coins at once, but not at quite the fine-grained detail we would need to make these coins work, it was built to switch off like 25% of our hashrate to a coin, and leave the bulk on a larger coin, which was fine until now. Now however, 25% of our hashrate is still way too much to put on a single coin. So for the next couple days, while we get the switcher a bit more intelligent, we'll be mining some of the larger coins (10+ difficulty for now), which we'll lose out on a tiny bit of per-block profitability, but should win overall with the decrease in orphan blocks (read: higher profitability overall for now).
Past the switcher upgrades, we've almost finished setting up another stratum endpoint (singapore), and will let you know when that is up
And one last thing. I've noticed some dips in worker counts, and it looks like certain groups of workers will be connected for a while, suddenly drop, and reconnect a second later. I have some theories for what could cause this, but no hard data, as it is extremely difficulty to track down. If anyone is seeing a reasonably consistent (and ideally time-based) disconnect/reconnect pattern on their miner(s). Please email me (
[email protected]) with your miner's IP address, and which endpoint you're connected to, it would help me to track it down if I can watch a few specific miners that are experiencing the issue.
