Status as of Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Post by **Steve Sokolowski** » Tue Jan 30, 2018 9:17 am

Good morning!

There are a three main focuses this week: hiring a developer, expanding into other algorithms, and resolving issues.
The hiring process is going well. We posted the job yesterday, but were fortunate to find someone we knew from years ago who may be interested in the position. If negotiations go well, (s)he may be able to start as soon as early April, which means that it's possible we could see a significant number of new coins and exchanges available for payout in May and June. If not, then we will continue interviewing, which means a longer timeframe.
Chris is adding SHA-256 coins to the pool in preparation for the start of SHA-256 mining. Until SHA-256 mining begins, these coins will be available for payout, so every day you'll see more and more payout coins arriving until the entire SHA-256 collection is available, which is about 100 more coins. Since bitcoin closely tracks Bitcoin Cash in profitability, we may decide to release initially by taking a reduced fee and not mining bitcoins, to build up hashrate and reserve.
Equihash mining is also in progress, but the stratum protocol for Equihash mining is not documented and most of the software for mining Equihash is closed source, making it difficult to reverse-engineer the protocol except by using Wireshark to look at the packets.

pavvappav · Post by **pavvappav** » Tue Jan 30, 2018 9:38 am

Post by **Steve Sokolowski** » Tue Jan 30, 2018 10:01 am

pavvappav wrote:https://github.com/z-classic/node-strat ... stratum.js ?

That code doesn't work. It appears obsolete, because it depends on an attribute "coinbasevalue" which was removed from the latest version of ZCash.