Selfish mining support requires restart

Post by **Steve Sokolowski** » Sat Apr 09, 2016 4:29 pm

Chris will be restarting the server to add selfish mining support to the pool. Selfish mining is a method where the pool tries to orphan other pools' blocks to increase its profitability. We had to implement this feature because another mining pool, Clevermining, has already done it.

The good news is that profitability will increase as a result of the release, because our orphan rates will go down - but it requires a server restart to deploy and could always go badly. The deployment will occur on Saturday or Sunday night. Several other bugfixes have also been resolved and will go out along with this release. If it goes badly, Chris will revert and we'll try again next weekend.

Thanks for your understanding about the 10-minute restart and I'll provide an explanation of how this increases profits later in the week.